The microbiological analysis showed that the initial microbiota of
minced pork consisted of Pseudomonas spp., B. thermosphacta, lactic
acid bacteria and Enterobacteriaceae. The population dynamics of
these groups and their contribution to the finalmicrobiotawere greatly
affected by storage temperature, as exemplified by the evolution of total
viable counts (Fig. 1). Pronounced lag phasewas evident in allmicrobial
groups at 0 °C, the duration of which was greatly reduced or not observed
at all at higher temperatures. A progressive increase of maximum
specific growth rate (μmax) was observed for all members of the
microbial association with increasing storage temperature (Table 1).