[HTML][HTML] Use of simulation tools to illustrate the effect of data management practices for low and negative plate counts on the estimated parameters of microbial …

F Garces-Vega, BP Marks - Journal of food protection, 2014 - Elsevier
In the last 20 years, the use of microbial reduction models has expanded significantly,
including inactivation (linear and nonlinear), survival, and transfer models. However, a major …

Establishing equivalence for microbial-growth-inhibitory effects (“iso-hurdle rules”) by analyzing disparate listeria monocytogenes data with a gamma-type predictive …

L Pujol, D Kan-King-Yu, Y Le Marc… - Applied and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Preservative factors act as hurdles against microorganisms by inhibiting their growth; these
are essential control measures for particular food-borne pathogens. Different combinations …

Knowledge-informed data-driven modeling for sparse identification of governing equations for microbial inactivation processes in food

S Zhang, F Ahamed, HS Song - Frontiers in Food Science and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Prevention of the growth of harmful microorganisms in food products is an important
requirement for ensuring food safety and quality. Mathematical models to predict the …

GInaFiT, a freeware tool to assess non-log-linear microbial survivor curves

AH Geeraerd, VP Valdramidis, JF Van Impe - International journal of food …, 2005 - Elsevier
This contribution focuses on the presentation of GInaFiT (Geeraerd and Van Impe
Inactivation Model Fitting Tool), a freeware Add-inn for Microsoft® Excel aiming at bridging …

Quantifying the robustness of a broth-based model for predicting Listeria monocytogenes growth in meat and poultry products

KG Martino, BP Marks, DT Campos… - Journal of food protection, 2005 - Elsevier
Given the importance of Listeria monocytogenes as a risk factor in meat and poultry
products, there is a need to evaluate the relative robustness of predictive growth models …

[HTML][HTML] The Most Probable Curve method-A robust approach to estimate kinetic models from low plate count data resulting in reduced uncertainty

A Garre, MH Zwietering, MAJS van Boekel - International Journal of Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel method is proposed for fitting microbial inactivation models to data on liquid media:
the Most Probable Curve (MPC) method. It is a multilevel model that makes a separation …

Comparing uncertainty resulting from two-step and global regression procedures applied to microbial growth models

KG Martino, BP Marks - Journal of food protection, 2007 - Elsevier
Two different microbial modeling procedures were compared and validated against
independent data for Listeria monocytogenes growth. The most generally used method is …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of what we cannot observe: Experimental limitations as a source of bias for meta-regression models in predictive microbiology

A Garre, MH Zwietering, HMW den Besten - International Journal of Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Meta-regression models have gained in popularity during the last years as a way to create
more generic models for Microbial Risk Assessments that also include variability. However …

Fitting a lognormal distribution to enumeration and absence/presence data

N Commeau, E Parent, ML Delignette-Muller… - International journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
To fit a lognormal distribution to a complex set of microbial data, including detection data (eg
presence or absence in 25g) and enumeration data (eg 30cfu/g), we compared two models …

Estimation of the probability of bacterial population survival: development of a probability model to describe the variability in time to inactivation of Salmonella enterica

K Koyama, H Hokunan, M Hasegawa, S Kawamura… - Food …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite the development of numerous predictive microbial inactivation models, a model
focusing on the variability in time to inactivation for a bacterial population has not been …