Figure 1

Heat resistance data (Mean ± SD) recorded at the different treatment temperatures used and fitted thermal destruction line (-) for Enterococcus faecium. The equation for the line is log₁₀ D = 9.3080 - 0.10412t (r = -0.84748; total number of log₁₀ D values = 195). The 95% confidence limits on predicted individual log₁₀ D values are shown by (- -). The figure is based on data from: [69, 179, 85, 170, 148, 113, 114, 140, 68, 98, 136, 154, 94, 120, 144].