APCs of cloudy and clarified pomegranate juices before and after pasteurization treatments were 5.59 ± 0.13 and 5.23 ± 0.04 log colony forming units (CFU)/mL, respectively. The reduction in number of endogenous microorganisms in the clarified pomegranate juice obtained by centrifugation was not statistically significant. Microbiological analysis of the heat-treated clarified juices indicated that both pasteurization treatments were sufficiently effective to decrease the APCs to a level below the detection limit, i.e. no CFU was observed just after treatment. For the heat-treated cloudy juices, microbial counts were almost nil or negligible (≤1.00 ± 0.00 log CFU/mL) after pasteurization processes.