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| Mark R PowellSummaryAffiliation: Agricultural Research Service Country: USA Publications
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The economic efficiency of sampling size: the case of beef trim revisitedMark R Powell
United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, Washington, DC 20250, USA
Risk Anal 33:385-96. 2013....
Considering uncertainty in comparing the burden of illness due to foodborne microbial pathogensM Powell
Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250, USA
Int J Food Microbiol 69:209-15. 2001..Although some would argue that the expected value of the number of illnesses provides the "best estimate" for decision-making, this merely reflects a decision-making rule of convention and not a scientific truism...
Considering the complexity of microbial community dynamics in food safety risk assessmentMark Powell
US Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, 1400 Independence Ave, SW, 5248 S Ag Bldg, Washington, DC 20250, USA
Int J Food Microbiol 90:171-9. 2004..A potential means of incorporating community-level microbial dynamics into the food safety risk assessment process is explored...
Bayesian synthesis of a pathogen growth model: Listeria monocytogenes under competitionMark R Powell
U S Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, 1400 Independence Ave, SW, 5248 S Ag Bldg, Washington, DC 20250, USA
Int J Food Microbiol 109:34-46. 2006..monocytogenes growth in a food with mixed microbial populations. Based on a specified tolerance for L. monocytogenes growth, the updated model provides a storage time limit for fish held at 5 degrees C, pH 6.8, 43% CO(2), 57% N(2)...
Modeling the frequency and duration of microbial contamination eventsMark R Powell
United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, Washington, DC 22205, USA
Int J Food Microbiol 110:93-9. 2006..The Bayesian Information Criterion provides a formal way of taking into account model uncertainty...
Analyzing the power and error of Listeria monocytogenes growth challenge studiesMark R Powell
United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, Washington, DC 20250, USA
Int J Food Microbiol 136:10-7. 2009..05 and power >or=0.8 to detect a 1 log(10) increase in mean concentration over the entire range of measurement uncertainty values for enumeration of L. monocytogenes reported in food samples in a validation study of ISO Method 11290-2...
Quantifying the robustness of a broth-based Escherichia coli O157:H7 growth model in ground beefDanilo T Campos
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
J Food Prot 68:2301-9. 2005..However, the RI also was related (P < 0.05) to temperature. By quantifying the predictive accuracy relative to the expected accuracy, the RI could be a useful tool for comparing various models under different conditions...
