Method of detecting obnoxious taint such as boar taint in individual animal bodies, preferably carcasses or parts thereof

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Boar taint in individual animal bodies preferably, carcasses or parts thereof can be detected by pre-, paring an extract of a meat and/or fat sample from the body or part thereof, reacting said extract with a colour reagent, for which the colour intensity developed at certain wavelengths exhibit a statistical relationship with boar taint, determining the transmittance or absorbance of the reacted extract at one or more such wavelengths, and inserting the recorded values in the said statistical relationship. A high correlation has been found to exist between colour reaction and boar taint evaluation so that the transmittance or absorptance at wave lengths characteristic of the colour …