“…Microbial inactivation is commonly modeled using a first-order kinetics process (Fujikawa & Itoh, 1996;Whiting, Sackitey, Calderone, Morely, & Phillips, 1996). More recently, some studies suggested that the Weibull model might have a better fit than firstorder models for kinetic analyses of non-thermal treatments such as pulsed electric fields (Lebovka & Vorobiev, 2004), high hydrostatic pressure (Avsaroglu, Buzrul, Alpas, Akcelik, & Bozoglu, 2006), UV light (Bialka, Demirci, & Puri, 2008;Chun, Kim, Won, Chung, & Song, 2010), aqueous ClO 2 , and fumaric acid (Chun et al, 2010). The Weibull model is not considered suitable for non-thermal treatment or non-linear survival plots (Lee, Zhou, Liang, Feng, & Martin, 2009).…”