A Trace Ultra 1300 gas chromatograph (Thermos Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) fitted with a TG-5 ms column (30 m × 0.25 mm i.d., film thickness, 0.25 µm, Thermo Scientific, Milan Italy) and an ODP 3 olfactory Detector Port (Gerstel, Mulheim, Germany), with additional supply of humidified purge air, was operated as earlier reported by Lasekan [35 (link)]. The split ratio between the sniffing port and the FID detector was 1:1. Two replicate samples were sniffed by three trained panellists who presented normalized responses, with strong agreement with one another.
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