data describing the microbiological status of a country’s meat products can be of great value: in acting as a de facto validation of the country’s regulatory systems, as a baseline for setting performance standards and in supporting risk assessment. o26, o45, o91, o103, o111, o113, o121, o128, o145, and o157 are the most common serotypes of enterohemorrhagic escherichia coli associated with hum...