ABSTRACT
This book presents contemporary views of the state of the art of predictive modeling of microbial growth in foods, which, it is worth noting, has been the subject of much research for more than 30 years. Contained herein the reader will sense that the “front end” of the modeling process (data collection, model developing, model fitting) has a scientifically sound basis and that the “middle bit” (tertiary models, applications software, expert systems, etc.) should make the technology readily available.
