A user-friendly general-purpose predictive software package for food safety

Computer-aided engineering tools can help speed up food product, process and equipment design by making it easier to check “what if” scenarios, much as such tools have improved productivity in other industries. In particular, food safety is a critical area where such predictive tools can have great...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of food engineering 2011-05, Vol.104 (2), p.173-185
Hauptverfasser: Halder, Amit, Dhall, Ashish, Datta, Ashim K., Black, D. Glenn, Davidson, P.M., Li, Jiajie, Zivanovic, Svetlana
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Zusammenfassung:Computer-aided engineering tools can help speed up food product, process and equipment design by making it easier to check “what if” scenarios, much as such tools have improved productivity in other industries. In particular, food safety is a critical area where such predictive tools can have great impact. A realistic, integrated and comprehensive software has been developed that can simulate a food process and its safety by combining a fundamental, physics-based model of the process with the kinetics of microbiological and chemical changes during processing to provide needed information at any time and at any location in the food during processing. Compositions for a large number of foods are integrated into the software, and therefore, composition-based prediction of thermophysical properties, needed for the model, can be obtained. Microbiological and chemical kinetic databases that are also built-in can cover many practical situations, based on the grouping of foods. An intuitive graphical user interface has been built with those in the food sector in mind.
ISSN:0260-8774
1873-5770
DOI:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.021