PREDICTIVE MICROBIOLOGY IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT - A SYSTEM-THEORY APPROACH

被引：41

作者：

VANIMPE, JF ^{[1
]}

NICOLAI, BM ^{[1
]}

SCHELLEKENS, M ^{[1
]}

MARTENS, T ^{[1
]}

DEBAERDEMAEKER, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV RESTAURANTS ALMA UZW,B-3000 LOUVAIN,BELGIUM

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY | 1995年 / 25卷 / 03期

关键词：

FOOD SAFETY; PREDICTIVE MODELING; SYSTEM THEORY;

D O I：

10.1016/0168-1605(94)00140-2

中图分类号：

TS2 [食品工业];

学科分类号：

0832 ;

摘要：

The main factors influencing the microbial stability of chilled prepared food products for which there is an increased consumer interest - are temperature, pH, and water activity. Unlike the pH and the water activity, the temperature may vary extensively throughout the complete production and distribution chain. The shelf life of this kind of foods is usually limited due to spoilage by common microorganisms, and the increased risk for food pathogens. In predicting the shelf life, mathematical models are a powerful tool to increase the insight in the different subprocesses and their interactions. However, the predictive value of the sigmoidal functions reported in the literature to describe a bacterial growth curve as an explicit function of time is only guaranteed at a constant temperature within the temperature range of microbial growth. As a result, they are less appropriate in optimization studies of a whole production and distribution chain. In this paper a more general modeling approach, inspired by system theory concepts, is presented if for instance time varying temperature profiles are to be taken into account. As a case study, we discuss a recently proposed dynamic model to predict microbial growth and inactivation under time varying temperature conditions from a system theory point of view. Further, the validity of this methodology is illustrated with experimental data of Brochothrix thermosphacta and Lactobacillus plantarum. Finally, we propose some possible refinements of this model inspired by experimental results.

引用

页码：227 / 249

页数：23

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