Concerning the trend of LAB it was found similar in all samples (data not shown); there was a moderate increase over the observation period and the lower load cell was recorded for the Cnt and Coa samples.
The analyses of skewers showed that Enterobacteriaceae were in the range of 3 log cfu/g at the beginning of the storage period; the initial counts were similar to those reported by numerous other authors that studied meat products (Seydim and Saricus, 2006; Chouliara et al., 2007; Esmer et al., 2011; Karabagias et al., 2011).