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Microbial load (cfu/g or cfu/ml) can be expressed as log10. So, if you have 100,000 microbes that is 5 log, 10,000 microbes is 4 log, 1,000 is 3 log, 100 microbes is 2 log and 10 microbes is 1 log. Now, if you went from 100,000 microbes cfu/g to 10,000 microbes cfu/g that would be a 1 log reduction (5 - 4 log). If you went from 100,000 to 32,000 that would be a 0.5 log reduction (5 - 4.5 log) and so on. I hope this helps St John Hall

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To calculate biologic log reduction, subtract the log value of the initial microbial count from the log value of the remaining microbial count after treatment or disinfection. The result will give you the reduction in log scale. For example, if the initial count was 1,000,000 CFU/ml (log 6) and the count after treatment was 1,000 CFU/ml (log 3), the biologic log reduction would be 3 logs (6-3 = 3).

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