The growing request
of consumers for safer products has led to consider alternative bio-based approaches, the use of protective
cultures being one of them. This work is aimed at checking the possibility of using two Lactobacillus spp. strains as
protective cultures against Clostridium spp. in pork ground meat for fermented salami preparation. Both Lactobacillus
strains displayed anti-clostridia activity in vitro using the spot agar test and after co-culturing them in liquid
medium with each Clostridium strain. Only one of them