Changes in levels of pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus.. According
to Miles et al. (1997), the growth rate (k) of V. parahaemolyticus
may be calculated using Eq. (1) (broth model), which
was later adjusted (by dividing) using the Triangular distributions
with the minimum, maximum and mean value of 3, 5 and 4 respectively,
adopted from the U.S. FDA (2005) for the growth adjustment
in raw oysters. Several assumptions were made in order
to adapt the proposed equation: