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Food microbiology

the time at a given temperature needed to kill 90 percent of a microbial population, reflecting the log-linear shape of thermal death curves.

In food microbiology, decimal reduction time refers to the time at a given temperature needed to kill 90 percent of a microbial population, reflecting the log-linear shape of thermal death curves. This meaning comes from Bigelow (1921) in Journal of Infectious Diseases.[1]

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References

Bigelow, W. D. (1921). The logarithmic nature of thermal death time curves. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 29(5), 528-536. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/29.5.528

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