As the microbial shelf life of the chicken matrices was not reached within the duration of the experiment, a potential shelf life increase due to the treatments could not be observed (Table 4).
On pork back-fat, total coliforms were reduced for at least 16 days with 1% cinnamon + marinade and at least 6 days with 1% oregano + marinade and 1% thyme + marinade (Table 5), whereas total coliforms did not growon pork LTL. E. coli did not growon both the pork matrices.