efficacy of any food preservation method because the presence of
injured bacterial cells could be as dangerous as the presence of fully
viable ones. Studies have shown that sublethally injured pathogens
could proliferate to microbiologically hazardous levels when water
and nutrients are plentiful (Busch and Donnelly, 1992; Ariefdjohan
et al., 2004) and they may acquire new or modified characteristics
(Lado and Yousef, 2002).