Recently, there have been several reports on the biogenic
amine, including Hm, reducing activity of microorganisms, such
as Staphylococcus xylosus (Mah & Hwang, 2009) and an extremely
halophilic archaea Natrinema gari (Tapingkae, Tanasupawat,
Parkin, Benjakul, & Viessanguan, 2010), isolated from traditional
fermented fishes. On the other hand, we reported on the Hmdegradation
in fish sauces by rice-bran nuka (Kuda & Miyawaki,
2010). However, it is considered that the degradation activities of
microorganisms and chemical compounds are not sufficient for
reducing Hm to acceptable levels. The aim of the present study is
the regulation of Hm accumulation in salted and fermented fish
products by the addition of halophilic lactic acid bacteria, like a
starter culture, isolated from nukazuke traditional fermented and
uncooked fish products.