Olores.org Newsletter December 2020

   After the success of their last Odour Study Day, that took place on the 23^rd January 2020, held at their odour laboratory at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, UK, Silsoe Odours has announced the next one-day course for the 10th February 2021, but in this ocassion will be held online, due to the COVID pandemic sitation.

   In its fourteenth year, the Silsoe Odours Study Day Course, organized by the Silsoe Odours Ltd, has been developed by leading odour professionals based on their own extensive experience. This course designed for regulators, operators of odorous industries, local authorities, consultants, air quality professionals and abatement equipment suppliers provides clear, up-to-date guidance on the principles, concepts and methods of odour management.

   The story of thie paper commenced in early 2016. At that time Ms. Anna Bokowa contacted 4 authors with experience on odour management, to write a small summary of odour regulations in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and a few countries of Europe. The Idea was to present this paper at a conference that she was organizing in Gdańsk, Poland. Soon these authors realized that the task was not minor and more European authors were added in order to have a more detailed picture of the odour regulations in this continent. This paper was presented in MKO2016, however, the authors agreed that a more overall view was needed. That is why authors from some other countries with relevant odour regulations in South America, and Asia were added.

   In total, 18 authors from Canada, Spain, USA, Poland, New Zealand, Austria, France, UK, Italy, Chile, Belgium, Colombia, China, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan have had over 50 (virtual) meetings at different daylight zones along 4 years of work. Many passionate discussions have been held along the years and many attempts have been made in order to homogenize the different views and stiles of the writing of the paper, (unsuccessfully, as pointed out by the reviewers ;-). Finally, the last draft was delivered, and now it is being reviews by experts. The preprint is available to everyone here.