The independent effects and interactions of the main factors
(time of storage, inoculation with spoiler Pseudomonas and dipping
in NEW) were evaluated applying a two-way ANOVA (P 0.05);
multiple comparisons among individual means within the same
microbial population (APC, Enterobacteriaceae or Pseudomonas
spp.) were made by Fisher's least significant difference (LSD) post
hoc test after rejecting the homogeneity of their variances using the
Levene test with an a level of P 0.05. Statistical analyses were
performed with Microsoft Excel software, implemented with the
statistical analysis tool add-in (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond,
WA, USA).