For the drying process, the temperature was dropped to 12 °C and relative humidity was set to 82% after the first two weeks.
Samples were taken after 0 (day of production), 2 (end of fermentation), 8, 14, 21, and 28(end of ripening) days.
At each sampling day, one sausage per treatment was taken for analysis (except for pH and weight loss which were measured in three sausages per treatment throughout the ripening as described below).