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Can Diet Prevent Boar Taint?
2014-09-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
DENMARK - Sows in heat love it – but we humans abhor it: the smell of androstenone. This substance taints the meat from boars that have not been castrated. Scientists are investigating whether a substance can be added to the feed of boars that will capture the foul odour.
Danes Investigate Whether Diet Can Prevent Boar Taint
2014-09-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
DENMARK - Sows in heat love it – but we humans abhor it: the smell of androstenone. This substance taints the meat from boars that have not been castrated. Scientists are investigating whether a substance can be added to the feed of boars that will capture the foul odour.
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Analyst: Sprint struggles taint would-be T-Mobile bid, consolidation hopes
2014-08-05 01:09:08| Telecom - Topix.net
The telecom industry and financial markets have waited for months for Sprint Corp. to pop the question and officially propose a merger with T-Mobile US Inc. But an analyst says that Sprint's allure as a suitor may be fading in the eyes of T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG.
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Boar Taint Chemical Calms Naughty Dogs
2014-02-10 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Texas Tech University researchers have found that androstenone - one of the natural chemicals responsible for boar taint in some male pigs - can stop barking and excitable dogs, writes Jackie Linden.
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Samples from spill cove show taint, but humans called safe
2013-10-10 13:35:31| Chemicals - Topix.net
Soil and sediment samples taken about four months after an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured and spilled thick crude oil into a Mayflower neighborhood showed that a Lake Conway cove was still contaminated enough with petroleum-related products to cause ecological but not human concerns, a state agency said Wednesday.
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