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Monitoring of pork liver and meat products on the Dutch market for the presence of HEV RNA.
Boxman, Ingeborg L A Jansen, Claudia C C Hägele, Geke Zwartkruis-Nahuis, Ans Tijsma, Aloys S L Vennema, Harry
Boxman, Ingeborg L A
Jansen, Claudia C C
Hägele, Geke
Zwartkruis-Nahuis, Ans
Tijsma, Aloys S L
Vennema, Harry
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2019-05-02
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Monitoring of pork liver and meat products on the Dutch market for the presence of HEV RNA.
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Int J Food Microbiol 2019; 296:58-64
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to assess pork liver and meat products present on the Dutch market for the presence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA. HEV RNA was detected in 27.3% of 521 products sampled from Dutch retail stores in 2016. 12.7% of livers were positive for HEV RNA (n = 79), 70.7% of liverwurst (n = 99), 68.9% of liver pate (n = 90), but in none of the pork chops (n = 98), fresh sausages (n = 103) or wild boar meat (n = 52). The highest level of HEV RNA contamination was observed in a liver (reaching up to 1 × 10