A survey of AMR E. coli and Listeria spp. on salmon on retail sale in UK

• Value: £35K

Lot 1: Survey design, sampling and transportation to the testing laboratoryApplicants should submit bids indicating a provisional sampling design for a survey of AMR E. coli and Listeria monocytogenes found on raw salmon from UK retail outlets. Individual items will need to be evenly sampled over a 12-month period from January 2024 to December 2024. Given the lack of UK data on E. coli and Listeria prevalence in raw salmon, we suggest sampling 300 salmon fillet samples (1 fillet per pack) as this will enable us to create a new baseline.

• Value: £115K

Lot 2: Microbiological testing, data analysis, reporting and archiving of recovered bacteria and their AMR profiles.Applicants are invited to submit bids to carry out the testing (detection , enumeration and antimicrobial susceptibility testing) of the prepacked, raw, farmed salmon fillets sampled at retail in the UK for E. coli and Listeria spp., as specified in Table 1 below.Testing will be informed by the study design but will be based on a total of 300 raw salmon collected over a period of 12 months between January 2024 to December 2024. Applicants must ensure good quality control throughout the sample arrival/logging and analysis and long-term storage of samples.