A5079028963- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Food Quality and Safety Studies
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
- Economic Analysis and Policy
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Nasal Surgery and Airway Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
2018-2022
KU Leuven
2017-2021
Surgical castration of piglets without pain relief is still common practice in many countries. Possible alternatives for surgical are application or anaesthesia production boars (entire males) and immunocastrates. Each these faces advantages disadvantages which may result different citizen attitudes consumers acceptability. Understanding acceptable to whom why further stimulate implementation. Consumer (n = 3251) stakeholder 1027) towards relief, with anaesthesia, immunocastration, were...
The practice of surgical castration piglets and its alternatives is still under debate. Production boars may impair meat quality due to boar taint reduced tenderness compared from surgically castrated male pigs, while immunocastration reduces improve but seems be less accepted by the pig chain. In this study, we aimed evaluate consumer's sensory appreciation barrows (BAs), immunocastrates (ICs) (BOs) in six European countries, taking into account selection tainted carcass consumers' taint....
There is a commitment by the European pig sector to ban surgical castration of male piglets in Union 2018. One alternative raise entire pigs, with an increased risk boar taint. A field study was performed to: (1) evaluate inter- and intra-farm variation taint prevalence, (2) investigate factors measured at slaughter influencing (3) relationship between sensorial scoring trained panel concentration components. From 34 farms, neck fat samples were collected from all pigs least two batches per...
Trained expert panels are used routinely in boar taint research, with varying protocols for training of panelists and scoring methods. We describe a standardized process scoring, to contribute standardize the olfactory detection taint. Three experiments described which we (1) evaluate importance effect previous sample, (2) determine thresholds on strips fat our panel, (3) test priming before evaluation. For final evaluation taint, propose consistent three-person 0-4 scale using mean score...
Boar taint is an unpleasant taste and odor that can occur in entire male pigs caused by androstenone, skatole, to a lesser extent indole accumulating fat tissue. In the present observational study, we evaluated extensive list of such potential risk factors which influence boar taint: social hierarchy puberty attainment, housing, health, preslaughter conditions, season, feed, carcass composition, slaughter weight or age, breed. Details on these were collected interviews with participating...