Heat Survivor Curves of Food-Borne Bacteria Suspended in Commercially Sterilized Whole Milk. I. Salmonellae

Abstract
The heat survivor curves at 55, 60, and 62.5 C of 8 Salmonella enteritidis serotypes suspended in commercially sterilized whole milk were generally nonlogarithmic. Ex- tensive tailings of curves were obtained which cannot be described by D values (decimal reduction value at a given tem- perature). The effect of plating medium and of recovery phenomenon on the max- imum survival time indicates that a com- bination of a Salmo,nella Survival Test with an F value that would describe railings of survivor curves might give a more compre- hensive "description of heat resistance of Salmonella in milk.