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1 MICROBIAL DEATH Antonio Casolari I. A. Microorganisms and Lethal B. Shape of Survivor Curves ........................................ ...........................2 II. Single Hit A. Heat Inactivation 1. Thermodynamic a. Maximum Allowable Q10 ........................................ ..........12 b. Minimum Allowable z ........................................ ...............13 c. The Highest Allowable Energy 2. Mechanisms and B. Radiation C. Chemical D. Theoretical III. Target Theory ........................................ ........................................ ....18 A. Inactivation by B. Heat Inactivation.

2 I. INTRODUCTION Microbial inactivation studies seem to be dominated by the exponential-single hit and multitarget theories, the former being applied mostly to heat inactivation kinetics and the latter to microbial

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