Antimicrobial Activity of Processed Spices Used in Traditional Southern Italian Sausage Processing

Several spices are used to process ‘Nduja, a traditional Calabrian sausage, well known for its typical flavor and piquancy. Despite wide use of spices for meat curing and controlling undesired microorganisms, no studies reported antimicrobial effectiveness of the spices in the ‘Nduja processing. The aim of this work was to evaluate the antimicrobial activities against 10 foodborne pathogens of processed spices used in the ‘Nduja industrial...