Because injured cells may not grow on media immediately after treatment (Smith,Mendonca,& Jung, 2009), about 10 briks of each treatmentwere incubated at 30 °C for 20 days (samples at day 1 of storage) and 55 °C for 10 days (samples at 1 and 130 days of storage) to evaluate the mesophilic and thermophilic growths respectively. As a result of incubation time, no microbial growth was detected for mesophilic aerobic bacteria and thermophilic aerobic bacteria, with
the latter analyzed at day 1 and day 130 of storage. These results are in accordance with a previous study described by Poliseli-Scopel et al. (2012),