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and Shahidi 2000). As an example, the resid- microbial decarboxylase activity against pre-
ual nitrite content in fermented sausages cursor amino acids. Consequently, tyramine
was found to be below 20 mg/kg in most of is produced from tyrosine, tryptamine from
the products surveyed in the late 1990s tyrptophan, histamine from histidine, phenyl-
and early 2000s in Europe (EFSA 2003). ethylamine from phenylalanine, cadaverine
Nitrosodimethylamine and nitrosopiperidine from lysine, agmatine from arginine, and
were reported as the main nitrosamines putrescine from ornithine. Polyamines
found at levels above 1 μg/kg. The levels of spermine and sperdimine follow a different
nitrosamines were found to be rather poor generation route, usually originated from
or even negligible in European fermented putrescine. Low amounts of amines con-