“…Developed during the last decades, the next generation sequencing methodologies provide a powerful tool to study microbial community structure and composition shifts at different stages of ripening, allowing the detection of minor bacterial populations (Riquelme et al, 2015), at variable taxonomic depth (Pothakos et al, 2014;Chaillou et al, 2015;Parente et al, 2016). The introduction of molecular methods, especially culture-independent approaches, have contributed to the exploration of various food microbiota (Galimberti et al, 2015;Pinu, 2016;Garofalo et al, 2017;Parlapani et al, 2018), as for beverages (Elizaquivel et al, 2015), vegetables Gu et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2019), and for dairy (Nalbantoglu et al, 2014;Riquelme et al, 2015;Ceugniez et al, 2017;Porcellato et al, 2018), seafood Parlapani et al, 2018;Silbande et al, 2018), and meat products (Cocolin et al, 2004;Pennacchia et al, 2011;Nieminen et al, 2012;Benson et al, 2014;Greppi et al, 2015;Polka et al, 2015;Stoops et al, 2015;Zhao et al, 2015;Delhalle et al, 2016;Mann et al, 2016;Carrizosa et al, 2017;Cauchie et al, 2017;Kaur et al, 2017;Korsak et al, 2017;Peruzy et al, 2019;Vester Lauritsen et al, 2019), in order to assess the microbial levels and diversity of food and food products Pothakos et al, 2014;Lee et al, 2017;…”