All these products are produced
from the first & second category meat and are offal-free (except for
the cooked sausages) and mutually differ only in the representation
of variousmeat categories. Rawdry-curedmeat products are smoked
(except for the Istrian prosciutto and home-made sausages from
Istria), dried and long-ripened in darkened chambers. Ripening takes
place at the average temperatures of 12e16 C and the relative humidity
of 70e80%, and lasts formore than 12months when it comes
to theDalmatian and Istrianprosciutto, 7e8monthswhen it comes to
the Slavonian ham, 5e6 months when it comes to the “Slavonski
Kulen”, 2e4 months when it comes to the dry fermented sausages
and 1e2 months when it comes to the bacon. Technology employed
with the production of cooked sausages (liver sausages and p^ate) is
described in detail in the paper by Persi et al. (2014). For other types of
prosciutto (n ¼ 9) collected from the markets, details on production
technology were not available (since the products were of an origin
unknown to the authors).