A popular approach to mathematical modeling of the combined effect of temperature, pH,
water activity, oxygen tension, and the concentration of salts, sugars, alcohol, and/or …

The survival of some pathotypes of Escherichia coli in very low pH environments like highly
acidic foods and the stomach has been well documented and contributes to their success as …

Minimal processing for microbial decontamination, such as the use of natural antimicrobials,
is gaining interest in the food industry as these methods are generally milder than …

Modelling and simulation of microbial dynamics as a function of processing, transportation
and storage conditions is a useful tool to improve microbial food safety and quality. The goal …

Efficient modelling of the microbial growth rate can be performed by combining the effects of
individual conditions in a multiplicative way, known as the gamma concept. However …

Since Listeria monocytogenes has a high case-fatality rate, substantial research has been
devoted to estimate its growth rate under different conditions of temperature, pH and water …

The microbial growth morphology, as a consequence of the food structure, has been
acknowledged to play a key role on the growth behavior. While in liquid media planktonic …

The objectives of the present study were:(i) to record time-temperature data in the
geometrical center (“coldest spots”) of different sizes and states (raw vs. frozen) of pork …

Over the last decades, predictive microbiology has made significant advances in the
mathematical description of microbial spoiler and pathogen dynamics in or on food products …

Aims To explore the predictions of a novel rearrangement of the Baranyi–Roberts model
(BRM) with time to detection data obtained from optical density data of microbial growth …