date:Feb 27, 2014
ly processed and cut into 101 g cubed pieces (flesh only).
Afterwards, cubes were inoculated with a four-strain cocktail of L. monocytogenes, resulting in ca. 103 CFU/10g sample; the samples were stored at 4, 10, 15, 10 and 25 2 C, and the enumeration of pathogens was performed at specific time intervals
The pathogen growth rate increased as the storage temperature increased.
The scientists have used the square root model to describe the L. monocytogenes growth rate as a function of tempera