Day of production (n ¼ 706) End of shelf life (n ¼ 2912) Total number
of products
LMOa BCb SRCc LMO BC SRC
Number of analyses 79 369 258 1117 930 865 1530
Number of positive analysesd 0 15 (4.07%) 5 (1.94%) 0 19 (2.04%) 6 (0.69%) 45 (2.94%)
Number of samples exceeding
acceptable levels
0 2 (0.54%) 0 0 0 0 2 (0.13%)
Recommended acceptable levels
[CFU/g] (Uyttendaele et al., 2010)
Absence/25 g 103 103 102 105 105 e