In addition, it has been reported that for vegetables the population of psychrotrophs affects their refrigerated shelf-life (Garget al., 1990). Pseudomonas spp. counts in PsAB plates are listed in Table 1. The highest counts after 30 days of storage were obtained for the control, showing significant differences (p b 0.05) with respect to the controlled atmospheres, and confirming the results obtained by Conteet al. (2009).