would not only be utilizable in decontamination procedures and in
protective cultures. It would also provide a mechanistic explanation
for the antimicrobial and health-promoting effects of probiotic
lactic acid bacteria (Salminen, Deighton, Benno, & Gorbach, 1998).
Lactic acid, in addition to its antimicrobial property due to the
lowering of the pH, also functions as a permeabilizer of the gramnegative
bacterial outer membrane. It may also act as a potentiator
of the effects of other antimicrobial substances