Endpoint of a Preservation Process
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Food Protection
- Vol. 50 (4) , 347-351
- https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-50.4.347
Abstract
In this report a case is made for food microbiologists to define or locate the endpoint of a preservation process using a numerical specification rather than descriptive terms. Examples of numerical specifications are presented. It is recommended that the specification be on the basis of one unit where the endpoint specification is the probability of a nonsterile unit (PNSU). Procedures for experimentally establishing or verifying the preservation process necessary to produce the endpoint specification are described.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: