“…Current state of art HP treatments alone cannot induce 100% germination (Mathys, 2008; Knorr et al, 2010; Reineke, 2012; Georget et al, 2014c,d; Dong et al, 2015; Georget, 2015; Sevenich and Mathys, 2018). The percentage of SD spores that remain dormant after HP treatment highly depends on the treatment conditions, including pH, water activity, pressure level, temperature, and dwell time (Mills et al, 1998; Wuytack et al, 1998; Considine et al, 2008; Reineke et al, 2013; Georget et al, 2014b; Bolumar et al, 2015; Rao et al, 2018). For example, decrease in water activities largely inhibits the germination of B. cereus spores by HP treatment (Al-Holy et al, 2007; Rao et al, 2018).…”