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Day 1, May 15（Tue.）　　Poster

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RAPID EVAPORATIVE IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING IN FOOD ANALYSIS

(Nihon Waters)
^oKatsutoshi Nagase, Thanai Paxton, Kenji Hirose

Increasing awareness on animal welfare has led to a European Treaty announcing a voluntary ban on the surgical castration of piglets by 2018. An alternative is to raise entire males however; the limitation is the possible occurrence of “boar taint” an off-odour caused by the accumulation of indole (IND), skatole (SK) and androstenone (AEON) in adipose tissue.1-3 IND and SK are indolic compounds derived from the degradation of L-tryptophan in the hindgut and their odour is often described as faecal-like.1,2 AEON is a pheromone produced in the Leydig cells of the testis having a urinary or sweaty like odour.4 To prevent adverse consumer reactions there is an urgent need for rapid methods for detecting “boar taint” at the slaughter line.