Figure 4
Heat resistance data (Mean ± SD) recorded at the different treatment temperatures used and fitted thermal destruction line (-) for Escherichia coli. The equation for the line is log10 D = 11.6471 - 0.16768t (r = -0.97349; total number of log10 D values = 332). The 95% confidence limits on predicted individual log10 D values are shown by (- -). Data used are from: [46, 92, 155, 24, 142, 102, 143, 22, 47, 66, 35, 39, 169, 1, 91, 178, 37, 87, 119, 121, 122, 58, 2, 27, 28, 29, 86, 165, 10, 174, 175, 63, 62, 93, 150]. Thermal destruction line for an unusually heat-resistant strain of E. coli reported by [72] is also shown (- • -).