“…Nata was mainly used in medicine after its discovery, it has gradually become incorporated into food preservatives (El-Enshasy, Farid, & El-Sayed, 2000) (Fajardo et al, 2010;Hondrodimou, Kourkoutas, & Panagou, 2011). In the food industry, Nata is commonly used as a preservative in milk and yoghurt (Dervisoglu, Gul, Aydemir, Yazici, & Kahyaoglu, 2015), cheese (Fuselli et al, 2012), ham (Camilloto, Soares, Pires, & de Paula, 2009), sausage (Pintado, Ferreira, & Sousa, 2010). Due to their potential risk on consumer health, the use of food additives including antimicrobial preservatives is strictly regulated by national and international authorities.…”