During microbial inactivation by a lethal agent (ignoring damage/injury, recovery from
damage/injury, etc.), an individual spore or cell can be either viable/alive and countable, or …

Kinetic models performing point estimation are effective in predicting the bacterial behavior.
However, the large variation of bacterial behavior appearing in a small number of cells, ie …

A microbial survival curve is constructed by plotting the number of recoverable cells or their
logarithm vs. the exposure time to the hostile agent, be it high or low temperature, a …

Regardless of the targeted microbe type, a thermal or nonthermal food preservation or
disinfection method's efficacy is primarily assessed based on its kinetics. Yet, there is …

Highlights•There is no reason to assume the universality of the loglinear survival
model.•Sterility criteria should be based on survival data above the detection level.•Fully …

Highlights•Development of stochastic modeling technique for bacterial inactivation is
reviewed.•Variability in survival cell numbers during inactivation process is described as …

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 …

The first-order kinetics for microbial inactivation was derived more than 100 years ago and is
still used, although more and more researchers are aware of very common non-linear …

This paper summarizes the plenary presentations and presents the summit conclusions and
recommendations during the IFT's (Institute of Food Technologists) second Research …

The traditional log-linear inactivation kinetics model considers microbial inactivation as a
process that follows first-order kinetics. A basic concept of log reduction is decimal reduction …