Odor intensities, odor concentrations and volatile amine compounds were investigated at the two piggeries in Korea and the one in Japan. It was confirmed that the piggery where odor control had been carried out intentionally showed the lower values of sensory measurement than those where the odor control had not been under consideration and also found that the concentrations of volatile amines in the odor-controlled piggery showed lower values rather than the uncontrolled. In this investigation, we conclude that the activities such as circulation of air in pig houses, spraying deodorants and feeding the additive that is effective for reducing malodors from piggery could decrease the odors and the concentrations of volatile amines that are the cause of offensive odors from piggery.

In this study, the detection limits of lower fatty acids in air were investigated by using Dynamic SPME(Solid Phase Micro-Extraction), i.e. improved Head Space - SPME method(HS-SPME). This Dynamic SPME, called SPDE(Solid Phase Dynamic Extraction), is the analytical method for volatile compounds in air with the extraction by using a stainless steel needle of which inner surface is coated with adsorption material and following the gas chromatographic analysis by inserting the needle into a injection port of GC and subsequently, desorption of the volatile compounds into a gas- chromatographic column. Extraction was carried out by passing the sample air through the needle with a suction pump which has been used for a detection tube. The result of measurement for the 6 lower fatty acids showed that the detection limits ranged from 0.10 ppm to 0.44 ppm and the linear correlation coefficients were over 0.99. Relative standard deviations obtained from 5 analytical repetition of a ca. 1.6 ppm standard mixture were in the range of 1.87%∼2.47%. This method has been shown to be a adequate for the measuring C2∼C5 fatty acids in air in the concentrations of over several hundreds ppb.