The Lowest Temperature Needed to Kill or Inactivate All Microbes

question 93

Multiple Choice

The lowest temperature needed to kill or inactivate all microbes in 10 minutes is the ______.

• A) thermal death point (TDP)
• B) thermal death time (TDT)
• C) sporicidal time
• D) death phase point

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