“…Hygienic procedures and the various methods of food preservation, such as UV radiation, reduce the amount of spore-forming bacteria in the final food product (Brown, 2000). However, there are more and more cases where spores contaminate food and can develop when the conditions were theoretically not favorable, for example at low temperatures (Murphy et al., 1999) or after high heat treatments (Mtimet et al., 2016). Phenotypes of spore-forming bacteria are diverse, both in terms of their behavior towards oxygen and of their resistance to low or high temperatures.…”