B. cereus is a gram-positive, spore-forming, motile, facultative anaerobic bacterium causing both food spoilage in bread (ropy texture) and possibly food poisoning (Thompson et al., 1993). On day 0, B. cereus counts were under the method detection limit (2 log cfu/g) and at the time of visible signs of mold growth, reached 4.0 log cfu/g for samples WOP and 2.7 log cfu/g for samples WP