The Minimum Temperature Needed to Kill All Microbes in a Sample

question 23

Multiple Choice

The minimum temperature needed to kill all microbes in a sample within ten minutes is called the

• A) thermal death point.
• B) thermal death time.
• C) essential reduction point.
• D) critical death time.
• E) decimal reduction time.

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