“…predominant strains (>50% reads) from different batches of Belgian MP samples at the end of their use-by-date (Cauchie et al, 2019). Considered as the main representative spoilage species in meat and meat products (Koort et al, 2005;Liu et al, 2006;Nychas et al, 2008;Pennacchia et al, 2009Pennacchia et al, , 2011Andritsos et al, 2012;De Filippis et al, 2013;Casaburi et al, 2014;Stoops et al, 2015;Zhao et al, 2015;Mann et al, 2016;Stellato et al, 2016;Del Blanco et al, 2017;Geeraerts et al, 2017;Raimondi et al, 2018;Li et al, 2019;Mansur et al, 2019;Peruzy et al, 2019), these bacteria were inoculated on irradiated MP samples, in mono-and in co-culture experiments.…”