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    Bacteria grow in distinct phases over time: a lag phase where they adjust to their environment, a logarithmic growth phase where they reproduce rapidly, a stationary phase where growth balances with death, and a decline phase where more die than survive. Understanding bacterial growth curves is important for food safety and preventing foodborne illness.

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    Bacteria grow in distinct phases over time: a lag phase where they adjust to their environment, a logarithmic growth phase where they reproduce rapidly, a stationary phase where growth balances with death, and a decline phase where more die than survive. Understanding bacterial growth curves is important for food safety and preventing foodborne illness.

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    Focus on Food Safety

    BACTERIAL GROWTH CURVE


    Stationary

    Logarithmic
    Growth

    Lag
    Decline

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    Time, hours
    A safe eating fact sheet brought to you by the KDHE Bureau of Consumer Health,
    1000 SW Jackson, Suite 200, Topeka, KS 66612-1274
    www.kdhe.state.ks.us handout #16
    11/99

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