Liha töötlemine
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-
sausages assayed in the framework of a sumed in meats are generally degraded in
European project (Demeyer et al. 2000). humans by the enzyme monoamine oxidase
Some N-nitrosamines appear to be generated (MAO) through oxidative deamination reac-
annaabi.ee 
