Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2098947 | Trends in Food Science & Technology | 2012 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Meta-analysis studies are increasingly being conducted in the food microbiology area to quantitatively integrate the findings of many individual studies on specific questions or kinetic parameters of interest. Meta-analyses provide global estimates of parameters and quantify their variabilities, and give insight into main influencing factors on parameters. This article discusses the opportunities of meta-analysis to generate sufficiently generic parameters – with their variability – for quantitative microbiological risk assessments, and demonstrates how the output of a meta-analysis can be used to benchmark future studies in order to position new data in perspective.
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Authors
Heidy M.W. den Besten, Marcel H. Zwietering,