“…General handling, processing, preservation and product properties of cephalopods, mainly based on squid which is the major cephalopod species produced, were published by Kreuzer (1984). Since then, there has been a great progress in marketing, quality assurance and freshness assessment of fish products, but there have been only few studies on cephalopods quality assessment, most of them being directed to squid and shortfin squid (Byun et al, 2000;Langille & Gill, 1984;Lapa-Guimarães, Silva, de Felício, & Guzmán, 2002;Ohashi, Okamoto, Ozawa, & Fujita, 1991;Paarup, Sanchez, Moral, et al, 2002;Paarup, Sanchez, Peláez, & Moral, 2002) and octopus (Civera, Grassi, & Pattono, 1999;Ruíz-Capillas, Moral, Morales, & Montero, 2002).…”