TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - BIOTECHNOLOGY - Preferred Composition: (I), (II) or (III) comprises at least 1x106 colony forming units of the Pseudomonas sp.. The Pseudomonas sp. is a mixture of Pseudomonas putida PPU 9.0 deposited as NRRL-B-30044 and Pseudomonas fluorescens PFL 2.1 deposited as NRRL-21658. In (II), the alkali metal is sodium, and the monoammonium phosphate is included in a weight ratio between about 1:1 and 125:1 alkali metal nitrate to monoammonium phosphate. ACTIVITY - None given.    MECHANISM OF ACTION - None given.    EXAMPLE - A mixture of Pseudomonas putida (PPU 9.0) and P.fluorescens (PFL 2.1) at a 1 to 1 ratio by volume at 103 CFU/ml was evaluated for the ability to degrade skatole. The mixture was inoculated into a culture medium containing dextrose as the carbon source, sodium nitrate as the nitrogen source and magnesium sulfate as the sulfur source to provide a carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur ratio (C:N:S) of 500:500:500 ppm. A control consisted of the same medium without the addition of bacterial composition. The medium was supplemented with skatole at 100 ppm. The inoculated medium was evaluated for odor and skatole degradation 24 hours and 48 hours post-inoculation. Odor was ranked on an olfactory scale where 0 indicated no odor, +1 indicated slight odor, +2 indicated moderate odor, and +3 indicated strong odor. Skatole degradation was determined by use of Ehrlich's reagent for detection of indole where a purple color indicated the sample contained greater than 10 ppm skatole as indole and no color indicated less than 10 ppm skatole. The results showed that after 24 hours the bacterial composition reduced skatole from 100 ppm to less than 10 ppm and reduced the odor emitted from the culture to slightly detectable. The control still emitted a strong odor and had greater than 10 ppm indole. By 48 hours there was no detectable odor emitted from the culture containing the bacterial composition whereas the control still produced a strong odor. The results showed that the bacterial composition was effective in reducing odor and degrading skatole.