“…The effect of fat content on the thermal inactivation of food pathogens has been investigated to some extent in the past, but different studies show contradictory results. Increasing the fat content of food products resulted in an increase (Fain et al, 1991;Ahmed et al, 1995;Chhabra et al, 1999;Juneja et al, 2001) or decrease (Schultze et al, 2007;Oliveira et al, 2018) of the resistance to thermal inactivation of submerged bacteria in the foods, depending on the specific case study. In other studies, no significant effect of fat content on thermal inactivation kinetics was observed (Kotrola and Conner, 1997;Stoltenberg et al, 2006;Byelashov et al, 2010;Kim and Kang, 2015).…”