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siderable effect on the sensorial quality of sausage and other fermented meat products
fermented meat products. These changes can can be achieved by the introduction of selec-
be summarized as follows: decreases in pH; tive decontaminating procedures targeted
changes in the microbial populations; reduc- toward spoilage and pathogenic bacteria but
tion of nitrates to nitrites a; formation of preserving technological microbiota (Ammor
nitrosomyoglobin; solubilization and gelifi- et al. 2004), and by the addition of microbial
cation of myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic pro- starter cultures selected from meat-process-
teins; proteolytic, lipolytic, and oxidative ing environment in order to drive the fermen-
phenomena; and dehydration (Casaburi et al. tation process.
2007). Meat starter cultures are “preparations