“…Taking into account that odour is one of the most important quality criteria in fishery products and that reliable and quantitative ways of measuring odours are necessary (Josephson, Lindsay, & Olafsdottir, 1987), a rapid, non-destructive method was used involving a sensor which can detect the faintest trace of odour-causing molecules, at such low values as 10 ppb (Fukui, 1991). The metal oxide semiconductor sensor of the Cosmos instrument has been used for fish freshness evaluation (Gelman, Drabkin, & Glatman, 2003;Icekson et al, 1996), bread flavour measure (Yoshino, Ootsuka, Hayashi, & Seguchi, 2007) and also for methylamine, dimethylamine, trimethylamine (Iyobe, Asada, Kawata, & Oikawa, 2004), indole and skatole measurements (Asada et al, 2002).…”