significant terms for both mesophilic and lactic acid bacteria counting.
Lack of fit was not found in these regressions and the response surfaces
could be used to explain the behavior of treatment. According to Figs. 1C
and 1D is possible to see that the highest efficiency in decontamination
was found for temperature of 74 °C and time of 10.53 min, which were
used for subsequent US treatments