“…Recently, the specific epithet sake was corrected to sakei according to Latin grammar (International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, Rule 12c, Lapage et al 1992;Trüper and De Clari, 1997). L. sakei was found in meat and meat products (Hammes et al, 1990;Kandler and Weiss, 1986;Morishita and Shiromizu, 1986;Samelis et al, 1994), starter cultures for sausage fermentation, and sake starters, sauerkraut and other fermented plant materials (Kandler and Weiss, 1986;Lücke, 1996;Toyoda et al, 1979). In contrast, L. sakei caused spoilage in vacuum-packaged vienna sausages (Dykes and von Holy, 1994).…”