Radiation-Sterilization of Food: A Statistical Analysis

Abstract

The report presents a mathematical analysis of the methods used for determining the effectiveness of radappertization (radiation-sterilization) of food. A general theory is developed which makes it clear that two inter-related distribution functions, the probability of organism death and the probability of can-sterilization, play important parts in the process. A critique is given of the Schmidt-Nank method for calculating the 12D dose and the implications of the experimental data are studied. Modifications in both experimental design and data analysis are proposed. These are evaluated by using them to analyze artificial data generated by a fairly realistic computer-simulation model. The proposed methods give considerably more accurate results than the traditional one, and it is concluded that the new methods appear promising for future use.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0760486

Entities

People

  • Edward W. Ross Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army Soldier Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Experimental Data
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Radiation Resistance
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Gender and Food Studies