Impact of microbial distributions on food safety I. Factors influencing microbial distributions and modelling aspects

Food Control

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 601-609

  Jongenburger, I ^a   Bassett, J ^b   Jackson, T ^c   Zwietering, M H ^a   Jewell, K ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^d CAMPDEN BRI   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch; Clustering; Frequency distribution; Lot; Overdispersion; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858724349     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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