Figures & data
Table 1. Mean and maximum air temperature (T) in residential refrigerators and the percentage above the 4°C generally recommended by FDA (based on Tables 6 & 7 reported by James et al., Citation2017, and additional work cited in this table). Countries are listed based on their 2021 per capita Gross Domestic Product (GPD).
Figure 1. Time-temperature history for cooked ham stored in a household refrigerator (Adapted from Martínez-Martínez et al., Citation2021). a) VS/F, b) VS/M, c) SS/F, and d) SS/M. VS and SS describe variable and single speed compressor while F and M respectively describe ham samples kept in the refrigerator, and those that were removed during a meal to simulate consumer product use.
Figure 2. Probabilistic RPI curves at the VS/LT/RL condition previously published by Martínez-Martínez et al. (Citation2021) and values obtained using the enhanced procedure.
Figure 3. Deterministic RPI estimates based on the estimated LAB counts increase during the exponential phase in F and M cooked ham samples for all test conditions for 48 h. Different letters denote significant differences for the compressor mode x Tchamber interaction.
Figure 4. Percentile rank for LAB RPI values. a) RL/F, b) RL/M, c) HL/F, and d) HL/M.
