PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve safety and quality of a food and drink by inhibiting spore germination growth of a spore-forming bacterium, and to provide the food and drink ensuring the microbial safety even when the pH value is higher than that of conventional products.;SOLUTION: A spore germination growth inhibitor of the spore-forming bacterium includes an organic acid or a salt thereof as an active ingredient.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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