Detection of harmful yeasts and bacteria in cloudy non-alcoholic beverages.
All cloudy, non-filterable, non-alcoholic drinks with a pH value < 4.3.
For cloudy, non-filterable, non-alcoholic beverages such as juices, nectars, fruit juice drinks and lemonades, the relevant beverage spoilers (in particular fermentable yeasts, respiratory yeasts, lactic and acetic acid bacteria) should be detected in accordance with the methods:
Anaerobic incubation is recommended for carbonated beverages in order to increase the selectivity of the analysis for this type of beverage.