Environmental odour news

New Farm Odor Management Regulations to Take Effect Feb. 27 Expansions Required to Develop Odor Management New regulations to manage odors from newly constructed animal barns and certain other agricultural operations will help minimize the potential for conflicts between neighbors, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today."With increasing development and urban sprawl, Pennsylvanians are moving closer and closer to their farming neighbors," said Wolff. "These new regulations are geared to help minimize conflict between those not accustomed to farm odors and the agricultural producers working to meet our increasing world food needs." As directed by Pennsylvania's Facility Odor Management Regulations in Act 38 of 2005, beginning Feb. 27, any concentrated animal operation or concentrated animal feeding operation - known as CAOs and CAFOs - that builds or expands an animal barn or manure storage facility is required to develop an odor management plan. CAOs ...

Pickering residents fuming over odour control Residents raise a big stink over plan to treat sewage odours in their backyard Jan 29, 2009 04:30 AM CAROLA VYHNAK   URBAN AFFAIRS REPORTER They don't like what's coming down the pipe. And they're vowing to stop it. Pickering residents say a proposed odour-control facility to be built near their homes for treating fumes from York Region's sewage will foul the air, lower property values and destroy valuable farmland. The anticipated smell is bad enough, says Stop the Stink, a community group fighting the proposal – which is awaiting the province's approval – but the perceived silence around the project has really put their noses out of joint. Residents in the Altona Rd. and Finch Ave. E. area weren't told how close the facility would be to their homes, or informed about odour complaints and breakdowns at an older structure farther south, Devi Gopalan said yesterday when 25 opponents took the fight to Durham Region cou...

Like cheese and onion: Scientists sniff out men and women's distinctive odours By  DAVID DERBYSHIRE Little girls may be made of sugar, spice and all things nice - but their underarms smell of onions and grapefruit, scientists say. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to whiff of pungent cheese after a hard day at work. These are the conclusions from a bizarre study which investigated the distinctive armpit odours of men and women. Pungent: Women's sweat smells of onion and grapefruit The research, led by some of the world's most respected smell scientists, could lead to a new understanding of body odour - and a new range of deodorants designed to tackle the unique smells of men and women. Scientists at Firmenich, a company in Geneva that researches flavours and smells for the food and perfume industry, took samples of armpit sweat from 24 men and 25 women after they had spent time in a sauna or 15 minutes on an exercise bike. The volunteers were asked to wash before the ...

Reinvigorated environmental focus for NSW councils 29 NSW Councils are set to undergo specialist training to make sure that their local government areas are using the best possible techniques to ensure their community’s ecological future. The training, presented by the Urban Sustainability Support Alliance (USSA) will take place in nine councils and two Regional Organisations of Councils (ROCs), which represent a further 20 councils. The list includes Bathurst City Council, Canada Bay Council, Coffs Harbour City Council, Holroyd City Council, Goulburn – Mulwaree Council, Strathfield Municipal Council, Tumut Shire Council, Wakool Shire Council, Yass Shire Council and Namoi ROC and Riverina and Murray Regional ROC.  Local Government Association President, Cr Genia McCaffrey, congratulates the Councils chosen to take part. “Training such as this is essential to make sure that local councils are taking the steps needed now to ensure a sustainable future for their communities,” she said. “T...

The scent of a man From The Economist print edition To attract a woman by wearing scent, a man must first attract himself Getty Images THE very word “perfume” has feminine overtones to many male ears. Men can be sold “deodorant” and possibly “aftershave”, but the idea of all those dinky little bottles with their fussy paraphernalia is too much for the sensitive male ego. Yet no industry can afford to neglect half its potential market, and perfume-makers are ever keen to crack the shell of male reticence. Now they may know how to do so. Craig Roberts of the University of Liverpool and his colleagues—working with a team from Unilever’s research laboratory at nearby Port Sunlight—have been investigating the problem. They already knew that appropriate scents can improve the mood of those who wear them. What they discovered, though, as they will describe in a forthcoming edition of the  International Journal of Cosmetic Science , is that when a man changes his natural body odour it can alte...

Problems with odor detection is identification. Most people can readily identify common items when they can see them: oranges, nuts, cats. But when asked to identify an odor when there is no other information about the object, they are much less accurate. read more | digg story

Naming scents can help you imagine them (and better appreciate wine?) Category:  Perception  •  Research  •  Taste  P, by  Dave Munger In 2007 I received a really cool Christmas present that I still haven't used. It's a kit to help identify the various components of the aroma in a glass of wine. I haven't used it because I wanted to wait for the right occasion -- say, a party with some of my wine-loving friends. But I've also been secretly skeptical whether it would really help. The kit has tiny vials that are supposed to represent individual aromas: "oak," "hazelnut," "coffee," "cherry," and so on. What does identifying an aroma have to do with deciding whether you like a glass of wine? As it turns out, more than you might think. Richard Stevenson, Trevor Case, and Mehmet Mahmut took a look at the history of research into aromas and found that in nearly every case, people have had great difficulty identifying and imagining them. ...

Could you identify your boyfriend's sweat? The more enamoured they are with a lover, the less likely people are to pick out the scent of another suitor• Article• Comments (10)• ZOSIA BIELSKIFrom Thursday's Globe and MailJanuary 22, 2009 at 10:19 AM ESTThe next frontier of sexual attraction lies in the armpit, according to researchers at McGill University who studied how body odour wafts through human relationships."The more in love you are with your boyfriend, the less able you are to identify the body odour of a male friend," said Johan Lundstrom, now an assistant professor of neuropsychology at Philadelphia's Monell Chemical Senses Center.The results, published in the journal Hormones and Behavior last month, support the "deflection theory," which argues that people in love are less aware of potential suitors around them.The research involved getting boyfriends, male friends and female friends of 20 women to sleep for one week in cotton T-shirts with...

Humans And Mice Express The Same Olfactory Preferences ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2009)  — Humans and mice are attracted by the same odors. This has been revealed for the first time by a team of French researchers in the "Neurosciences sensorielles, comportement, cognition" Unit (CNRS / Université Lyon 1). See also: Health & Medicine Psychology Research Nervous System Mind & Brain Perception Neuroscience Plants & Animals Mice Rodents Reference Olfaction Sensory neuron Sweating Saliva Published on January 16, 2009 in the journal Plos One, their work confirms that olfactory preferences are not solely determined by experience or culture, but also by the structure of the odorant molecule. It will undoubtedly enable a clearer understanding of the neuronal mechanisms coding for olfactory perception. More immediately, it may be possible to predict human olfactory preferences based on those observed in the mouse. In humans, odors strongly influence numerous compartments of da...

Odor rooms make 'scents' for company in E. Hanover New building houses Givaudan Fragrance By Ellen S. Wilkowe • Daily Record • In a room that exists solely to exhaust the scents of manufactured air fresheners, even the most stuffed-up noses can get a whiff. In the state-of-the-art product-testing center at Givaudan Fragrance and Flavors' new headquarters in East Hanover, the company is testing the length of life of brand-name air-fresheners in order to back up the manufacturers' claim that their product truly lasts 30 to 60 days as advertised, said Lisa Lewis, Givaudan's creative director. One flight up, scientists in white coats, surrounded by labeled brown bottles, compound fragranced concoctions to infuse into various home products. Think laundry detergent, Clorox, dishwashing soap, and yes, air fresheners such as Glade PlugIns. (Oh, and it smells great in there.) Call them super-secret scents, tested by professional perfumers in specially constructed, glass-encl...

MP kicking up a stink over tip odour 1 reader has commented on this story. Click here to read their views. AN MP HAS taken up the fight to clear the air around Winterton, Roxby and Burton-Upon-Stather of the stench of rotting rubbish. The smells given off by the landfill site off the A1077, close to Roxby, led the Environment Agency to call a meeting with members of the public two weeks ago. Now MP Ian Cawsey is urging his constituents to fill out a questionnaire about the effects of living with the odour. The quiz, which is posted on his official website, asks participants how the issue affects them, whether they have filed a complaint and to describe the smell. Mr Cawsey said: "I attended the public meeting with the Environment Agency to discuss the foul smells coming from the Roxby Landfill site." TIN.adverts.addToArray('article-detail-impact-tile', 'AAMSZ=452x118'); "Action is being taken to get the operator of the site, Biffa, to get rid of these sme...

Region takes second look at odour facility AJ GROEN / METROLAND Map data ©2009 Tele Atlas -  Terms of Use Map Satellite Hybrid Tools Smaller Text   |   Larger Text Email this Article Print this Page Report Typo or Correction Jan 16, 2009 - 11:16 AM BY REKA SZEKELY DURHAM -- Region staff will take another look at a proposed sewage odour control facility (OCF) slated for Pickering after residents lobbied against the project. The facility is part of the infrastructure necessary for an expansion of the York-Durham Sewage System, also known as the Big Pipe. A number of residents from the Cherrywood West subdivision in Pickering are upset because the OCF is to be located 300 metres south of their neighbourhood. Their main concern is the potential smell if it doesn't function as well as engineers are predicting and the effect on their property values. They made their case to Pickering City Council, where they won support, and to the Region on Jan. 14. "Potential buyers will figure ou...