Table 2.
Parameters for Weibull models predicting bacterial reduction on chicken fillet meat after continuous UV‐C and pulsed UV light exposures, and goodness‐of‐fit parameters of the models
Bacterial species | α | β | RMSE | R 2 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Continuous UV‐C light | E. coli EHEC | 2.03E‐06 | 0.09 | 0.31 | .75 |
L. monocytogenes | 2.02E‐09 | 0.07 | 0.47 | .41 | |
S. Enteritidis | 2.35E‐05 | 0.14 | 0.41 | .64 | |
S. aureus | 2.22E‐15 | 0.05 | 0.20 | .76 | |
Pseudomonas spp. | 2.86E‐09 | 0.09 | 0.39 | .68 | |
C. divergens | 1.45E‐08 | 0.10 | 0.37 | .74 | |
B. thermospacta | 1.66E‐07 | 0.11 | 0.31 | .80 | |
E. coli ESBL | 1.65E‐08 | 0.10 | 0.38 | .74 | |
All | 9.89E‐09 | 0.09 | 0.53 | .25 | |
Pulsed UV light | C. divergens | 3.79E‐10 | 0.06 | 0.29 | .86 |
L. monocytogenes | 2.27E‐04 | 0.13 | 0.37 | .63 | |
S. Enteritidis | 6.32E‐02 | 0.31 | 0.42 | .79 | |
E. coli EHEC | 5.29E‐02 | 0.32 | 0.41 | .79 | |
E. coli ESBL | 7.58E‐03 | 0.24 | 0.28 | .89 | |
Pseudomonas spp. | 1.31E‐03 | 0.20 | 0.55 | .71 | |
S. aureus | 6.61E‐03 | 0.24 | 0.47 | .47 | |
B. thermospacta | 9.21E‐03 | 0.26 | 0.37 | .82 | |
All | 6.23E‐03 | 0.22 | 0.54 | .46 |