Still, based on epidemiological associations, the World Cancer Research Fund (2007) explicitly urges in one of its ten cancer-preventing recommendations to avoid all cured meats, further fuelling the debate and the demand for products free of nitrate and nitrite. To worsen matters even more, smoking of fermented meats has also been identified as a risk due to the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Santos, Gomes, & Roseiro, 2011), suggesting the need for good maintenance of smoking equipment and modification of traditional technologies, for instance by altering the products’ position in the smoking room (Roseiro, Gomes, & Santos, 2011).