The suitability of three probiotic Lb. rhamnosus strains (GG, E - 97800, and LC - 705) to produce dry sausage has been demonstrated by Erkkila et al. (2001) .
A very effective screening procedure has been suggested by Pennacchia et al. (2004) , leading to the isolation of twenty potentially probiotic Lactobacillus strains, eleven of which exhibited good adhesion capability to Caco – 2 cell layers, most of them belonging to Lb.plantarum group (Pennacchia et al. 2006 ).
Klingberg และ Budde (2006) demonstrated the capacity of two Lb. plantarum strains to survive the passage through the human GIT either as freeze - dried culture หรือ embedded in a sausage matrix. Microencapsulation has
also been proposed as an alternative for the incorporation of either probiotic
หรือ bacteriocinogenic strains. In the latter case, though, the inhibitory action of reuterin, producing
Lb. reuteri against E. coli O157:H7, was found to be reduced during sausage fermentation
compared with that of the free microorganism (Muthukumarasamy and Holley 2006, 2007 ).