Olfactometric techniques in feed analysis: preliminary calibration of DON in durum wheat

Abstract

Electronic nose (EN), among the most recent olfactometric techniques, represents a modern and automated analytical approach which could have many industrial applications in different fields. Food analyses represent one of the more interesting examples. One of the most throughput definitions of the EN, was given by Gardner and Bartlett (1994), who defined it as “an instrument which comprises an array of electronic chemical sensors with partial specificity to chemical substances and an appropriate pattern recognition (PR) system, capable of recognizing simple or complex odours”.

Keywords

• electronic nose, olfactometric techniques, DON, durum wheat