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735267 

Journal Article 

Chemical characterization of volatile organic compounds on animal farms 

Ciganek, M; Neca, J 

2008 

1 

Veterinární Medicína
ISSN: 0375-8427
EISSN: 1805-9392 

53 

12 

641-651 

English 

https://doi.org/10.17221/1969-vetmed 

WOS:000262639300001 

https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/chemical-characterization-volatile-organic/docview/2661054373/se-2?accountid=171501
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More than one hundred volatile organic substances were identified by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in the indoor and outdoor air, stable and farm road dust and farm soil samples from two pig and cattle farms in the South Moravian Region. Volatile fatty acids (acetic, propanoic, butanoic and pentanoic acids) and their esters dominated along with aldehydes (butanal, pentanal and hexanal) and 4-methylphenol in the indoor and outdoor air samples. Road dust and soil samples contained mainly volatile aromatic compounds (toluene, benzene, ethylbenzene, styrene and xylenes), aliphatic hydrocarbons (largely n-alkanes), dichloromethane and carbon disulphide. The health risks associated with particular volatile compounds detected in the indoor and outdoor samples from the farms need to be assessed. 

VOCs; SPME; GC/MS; pigs; cattle; solid-phase microextraction; polycyclic aromatic-hydrocarbons;
odorous; compounds
biochemical-origins
livestock buildings
manure
composition
mass-spectrometry
cattle feedlots
north-carolina
air-quality