Since the device can detect one specific type of taste, they hope to find ways to measure the others, as well.

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But the statement added that the type of device and the fact it had been left in a lavatory of a bar with no specific target "do not point necessarily towards the groups that recently have promoted violence and terrorism in the Basque region, " it said.

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