After 14 days shelf-life, the treatment with AL 2% + 0.15% Cit + 0.1% Eug were the most eficient in reducing aerobic mesophilic microorganisms followed by all AL 2% treatments which had higher effect than the AL 1% ones (Table 20). Control had the higher values as well as AL 1% and AL1% + Cit 0.15%.
Also here the maximum permited limits for food borne microorganisms development in food (5 Log10 CFU/g) were not reached. In the case of PE edible coatings the same pattern was obtained, but here there were not significant differences among PE 1% treatments which were not also different from control (Table 21). Moreover, control and AL 1% pass the permissible limits for aerobic mesophilic microrganisms in food by reaching 5.61 and 5.58 Log10 CFU/g, respectively, making those treatments not recommendable for more than 7 days storage.