A properly designed control system for canned-food sterilization is able to achieve the final desired level of bacterial inactivation, irrespective of any disturbances, e.g. in the form of undesired changes of the heating-medium temperature, and with a minimum of over-processing. The feed-forward control system for canned-food sterilization was described in the article.The controller in such a system is able: (a) to anticipate the change of the final cumulative lethality in a situation when the disturbances of the process occurred during heating and (b) to take appropriate corrective actions that can eliminate such disturbances. The heating turn-off decisions in such a controller are based upon the prediction (in every second during heating) of cumulative lethality for the cooling stage. The prediction of the cooling phase is based on a simulation of temperature changes in the coldest point inside a can using the empirical m-th order step-response model.