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Measurements of Breath Odors and Related Parameters

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Breath odors, much like other odor nuisances (e.g., sewage, garbage, livestock waste), are perceived in everyday life by our sense of smell. The human nose can pick up the scent of a large variety of different odorants at very low concentrations that are sometimes below instrumental detection thresholds. That is why organoleptic measurements employing human odor judges are still considered the “golden standard” in various odor testing scenarios, including breath odors evaluation both for research and the clinical setting.

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Sterer, N., Rosenberg, M. (2011). Measurements of Breath Odors and Related Parameters. In: Breath Odors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19312-5_8

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