“…The first published predictive models of Salmonella also focused on bacterial inactivation in egg products, chicken meat and other food products (Anellis, Lubas, & Raymond, 1954;Bayne, Garibaldi, & Lineweaver, 1965;Davidson, Boothroyd, & Georgala, 1966;Osborne, Straka, & Lineweaver, 1954). Along with Escherichia coli, Salmonella is commonly used as a model organism in microbiological investigations (Neidhart et al, 1987) and was the subject of early quantitative studies.…”