title: Microbial contaminants of commercially bottled non-alcoholic drinks produced in Nigeria.
abstract: When microbiological analyses were conducted on 90 samples of soft drinks representing 30 different products commercially available in Nigeria, contaminants were detected in 50% of them. The isolates were mainly saprophytic and non-pathogenic: Bacillus spp. (35%), Lactobacillus spp. (26%), Pediococcus spp. (6%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (6%) and Micrococcus spp. (3%) accounted for the bacterial isolates while Aspergillus niger (6%) and Saccharomyces spp. (16%) accounted for the fungal isolates.
authors.affiliation: , .
authors.forename: S U
authors.initials: SU
authors.lastname: Oranusi
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Ezeogu
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Okolo