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Lecture notes for Module 4 Part 1: Growth models Tiny van Boekel, PDQ N.B. This is an adapted version of Chapter 12 from the book Kinetic modelling of Reactions in foods, M.A.J.S. van Boekel, CRC Press 2008. Introduction The microbial quality of food is of utmost importance. It is in fact the first and foremost task of a food technologist to produce safe food. The risk of contamination and growth of pathogenic micro-organisms is much larger than that of toxic or mutagenic substances. Foods are very vulnerable to microbes because the required nutrients for microbial growth are usually present i