Some common Gram-positive bacteria that affects meat are as:
- Carnobacterium: Grows anaerobically at high CO2, affects pork meat
- Leuconostoc: Responsible for spoiled meat and give its green Can produce slimes especially in high-sugar foods.
- Micrococcus: Can cause spoilage of salted and chilled meats.
- Staphylococcus: Is responible for food spoilage and poisoning
- Psychrotrophic: Able to spoil meat stored at chilling temperature with reduced relative humidity
- Brochothrix: Grows under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions under temperature of 20–25°C. but it can grow at temperatures as low as 0°C, hence affecting frozen meat too.
- Clostridium: It has proteolytic and putrefactic action hence degrading meat quality