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Meat products cooking time at 62.8°C

What this value means

For Meat products at 145°F / 62.8°C, Table 2 lists a required dwell time of 4 minutes to support a 7-log reduction of Salmonella. The value comes from USDA FSIS Cooking Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix A, December 2021, FSIS-GD-2021-0014) (page 35, row 16, column 7-log10 Lethality). This site returns only exact published rows: it does not interpolate between temperatures, invent fat levels, or merge different FSIS tables into a new recommendation.

Table 2 applies to meat products and publishes separate 6.5-log10 and 7-log10 Salmonella columns. Instantaneous lethality is listed at 158°F and above.

Converted temperature is a mathematical conversion of the source °F value using °C = (°F − 32) × 5 / 9, rounded half-up to 1 decimal place. It is not a new FSIS recommendation.

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Humidity and come-up time

Because this endpoint is at or above 145°F, FSIS Relative Humidity Options 1–4 in Table 1 (page 26) may apply when using this time-temperature table.

Humidity and heating come-up time are critical operating parameters for using the table. They do not change the dwell time printed in this row. FSIS recommends limiting the total time product temperature is between 50 and 130°F to 6 hours or less.

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