Heat treatment is a relatively simple but effective means of decontaminating food from spoilage- and disease-causing microorganisms . However, it is also well known that this processing technology adversely affects quality, especially those of heat-labile products such as fruit juices. This negative effect of heat on product quality is the reason why some processors opt not to subject their products to heat pasteurization. Consequently, this resulted in the occurrences of a number of outbreaks of infections of pathogens including Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovars in apple and orange juices, respectively . The ratification of the Federal Juice Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (Juice HACCP) sought to protect consumers from such hazards in juice products by mandating manufacturers to apply processing steps capable of reducing a target pathogen population by 5 logarithmic cycles.