This latest revision for pork comes again on the advice of the FSIS, which says cooking cuts of pork to 145Â° F with a three minute rest is as safe as cooking them to 160Â° F, the previously recommended temperature, with no rest time.With a single temperature for all whole cuts of meat and uniform 3 minute stand time, we believe it will be much easier for consumers to remember and result in safer food preparation,â said Under Secretary Elisabeth Hagen in the USDAâs news release.
From Wikipedia. Point estimation. In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value (known as a statistic) which is to serve as a best guess for an unknown (fixed or random) population parameter. More formally, it is the application of a point estimator to the data.
But it is possible to use your sample to calculate a range within which the population value is likely to fall. Likely is usually taken to be 95% of the time, and the range is called the 95% confidence interval. The values at each end of the interval are called the confidence limits. All the values between the confidence limits make up the confidence interval.