text: Log reduction is a measure of how thoroughly a decontamination process reduces the concentration of a contaminant. 
  It is defined as the common logarithm of the ratio of the levels of contamination before and after the process, so an increment of 1 corresponds to a reduction in concentration by a factor of 10.
  In general, an -log reduction means that the concentration of remaining contaminants is only  times that of the original. So for example, a 0-log reduction is no reduction at all, while a 1-log reduction corresponds to a reduction of 90 percent from the original concentration, and a 2-log reduction corresponds to a reduction of 99 percent from the original concentration.