The mesophilic spore-forming bacteria load significantly increased in all the “mpedli” samples during the 4 week-storage period. The spore-forming bacteria count varied between 4.84±0.4 and 6.73±0.2 log10 CFU/mL in control “mpedli”, 0 and 5.11±0.3 log10 CFU/mL in VMB samples, and ...