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concepts dvalue thermal death time commercial sterility innovative useful inception based untenable assumptions notably loglinear isothermal inactivation model universal applicability extrapolation several orders magnitude detection level permissible total microbial inactivation theoretically impossible almost commonly observed inactivation patterns loglinear special case described deterministic fully stochastic models examples given unlike deterministic stochastic models predict either complete elimination targeted cells spores realistic finite time residual survival cases published survival data contain enough information establish actually happens microbial safety thermally processed foods compromised underprocessing also variety mishaps whose occurrence probabilities unrelated inactivation kinetics moreover available sampling plans detect microbial contamination sterilized containers incubation alone insensitive levels potential safety concerns principle many issues could resolved developing new dramatically improved detection methods andor verifiable methods predict low levels microbial survival