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A milk processing plant pasteurizes a batch of 12500 L whole milk to inactivate the pathogen Coxiella burnetii, (decimal reduction time of 14 seconds at 72 °C) prior to packing in 500 milliliter pouches. The initial count of the noted organism is 10 per milliliter. For this batch pasteurization process at 72 °C, resulting in no survivor in any of the packages, the process F-value in seconds is _______.

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