Report of the HPSC Sub-Committee on Verotoxigenic E. coli

In 2005, a sub-committee of HPSC published a report entitled ‘Report of the HPSC Sub-Committee on Verotoxigenic E. coli. Where the contents remain unchanged, the original chapters and appendices are presented below. Chapter 5 was revised by a sub-group of the VTEC sub-committee in 2013, and by the Research and Guideline Development Unit in 2024. The revised version is presented with its date of revision.