The use of starter cultues with negative decarboxylase activity was shown to prevent the growth of biogenic amine producers and lead to end products nearly free of BA, as long as the raw material was of sufficient quality. Several papers have reported on the ability of selected starter culture (L. sakei CTC494) to greatly reduce BA accumulation in fermented sausages (Bover-Cid et al.2001; Gonzalez-Fernandez et al. 2003).