Other studies investigated the use of both thermal and nonthermal
intervention technologies to inactivate Y. pestis in foods. investigated the use of gamma radiation
at both refrigeration (D10 0.19 at 10 C) and frozen temperatures
(D10 0.37 kGy at 20 C) and developed a predictive
equation to describe the temperature dependent radiation inactivation
kinetics of Y. pestis in ground meat. found the gamma radiation D10 of a multi-isolate cocktail
of Y. pestis inoculated onto phosphate buffer and frankfurters to be
0.23 and 0.31 kGy, respectively.