Figure 1.

Aerobic bacterial counts (APC) for RMBDs (n = 42) and extruded (n = 24). The Fligner-Killeen test was used to determine the homogeneity of variances (homoscedasticity) and Shapiro-Wilk test for normality. The level of APC between both diets was compared using Welch's Two-Sample T-test *p-value < 2.20 × 10⁻¹⁶. The red line shows the suggested APC upper limit for animal compound feed according to Kukier et al. (19). RMBD's APC >1 × 10⁶ CFU/g = 31.