“…Another system would be through the combined, simultaneous use of HHP and mild heating (Clery-Barraud, Gaubert, Masson, & Vidal, 2004;Lee, Dougherty, & Kang, 2002;Margosch et al, 2006;Margosch, Ganzle, et al, 2004;Patazca, Koutchma, & Ramaswamy, 2006). The use of combined cycles seems to have particular relevance to the inactivation of spores (Ahn et al, 2007;Heindl et al, 2008;Shen, Urrutia Benet, Brul, & Knorr, 2005). Nonetheless, these methods cannot yet reliably be adopted commercially for food sterilization without a proper assessment of the effectiveness against pressure-resistant pathogenic spores, due to the variable effects of HHP on spore germination (Ahn et al, 2007;Wilson et al, 2008).…”