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Published on 21 August 2025

Can Odour Impacts Be Reliably Determined by Assessors?

Livestock husbandry poses challenges in determining odour impacts due to the heterogeneity and spatial extent of its odour sources. Agroscope and Empa have refined a method using trained assessors and validated it with tracer gases.

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19 August 2025

Odour Research as a Basis for Determining Distances from Animal Housing Systems

On the impact side, the range of the odour plume and the frequency of odour intensities are determined in odour-plume inspections conducted by assessors

6 February 2026

WhatsApp channel for practitioners

Aimed at agricultural practitioners, the information is shared on our WhatsApp channels 'Agroscope_fr' (French) and 'Agroscope_de' (German).