Although dairy products are the most commonly used food vehicles for delivery of probiotics, the future of dry-fermented sausages in this field has been termed promising (Incze 1998). The probiotic culture should be well adapted to the conditions of the fermented sausage in order to dominate in the final product, competing with other bacterial populations from meat and from the starter culture. In addition, the culture should not develop off-flavors in the final product.