Identification of Boar Off-Flavour with an Electronic Nose

Androstenone (A), skatole (S) and indole (I), compounds held responsible for boar taint, are highly lypophylic and practically non volatile. These two characteristics greatly hindered the use of systems that analyze the head space of the sample such as an electronic nose for the sorting out of boar tainted carcasses. Therefore alternative methods had to be explored. A previous preliminary study [1] on th