text: …food processing (Gandhi and Chikindas, 2007; Spector and Kenyon, 2011), L. monocytogenes is noticeably more prone to inhibition by indigenous microorganisms present in MPV, such as lactic acid bacteria, than is Salmonella (Liao and Fett, 2001; Hanning et al., 2008; Dominguez and Schaffner, 2008).