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Final Exam

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Describe thermobacteriology.   Concerned with the relationship between bacteria and heat; studies efficacy of heat sterilization techniques; associated with low-acid canned foods/C. botulinum.  
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Thermobacteriology processes must render the food ____ and ____.   safe, commercially stable  
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Describe microbial death.   Failure of reproduction, absence of growth during opportunity.  
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T or F: Viable but non culturable cells are considered dead.   True  
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Name three physiological factors which affect microbial inactivation.   Growth medium, pH, temperature, competition, antimicrobials  
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Define thermal death time.   Time necessary to inactivate a defined concentration of bacterial spores or vegetative cells at a specified temperature.  
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T or F: Thermal death time depends on curve shape.   False  
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For first order destruction, the level of microbial concentration depends on the _____ of product.   volume  
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What are the three assumptions made to use the survival curve?   Even distribution of innoculum, linear response, isothermal temperature.  
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Define transformation.   Used to get a linear response from a set of log values.  
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T or F: The thermal death time curve is linear with temperature.   True  
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Define lethal rate.   The equivalent time at a reference temperature needed to destroy the same number of microorganisms for the current product temperature.  
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Define F-value.   The time in minutes needed to destroy a given number of organisms at a specific temperature.  
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Minimum health sterilizing values are based on a 12 log reduction of _____.   C. botulinum  
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Commercial sterility values are based on a 5 log reduction of _____.   C. sporogenes  
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