Summary: The European Union One Health 2018 Zoonoses Report
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control released their joint annual report—The European Union One Health 2018 Zoonoses Report—on trends and sources of zoonoses last month. Their research found that, in 2018, nearly a third of foodborne outbreaks in the EU were caused by Salmonella.
Here, a foodborne disease outbreak is categorized as an incident during which at least two people contract the same illness from the same contaminated food or drink. In 2018, the EU reported a total of 5,146 foodborne outbreaks that sickened 48,365 people.