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Sensory panel management : a practical handbook for recruitment, training and performance
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Covering all aspects of Sensory Panel Management, this volume describes the different types of sensory panels (for example, panels for quality control, descriptive analysis and discrimination tests...
Covering all aspects of Sensory Panel Management, this volume describes the different types of sensory panels (for example, panels for quality control, descriptive analysis and discrimination tests), discusses the issues involved with sensory testing and gives detailed information about sensory panel recruitment, training and ongoing management--back cover.
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- Creator
- Lauren Rogers
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Duxford, England ; Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Kidlington, England : Woodhead Publishing, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations, tables
- ISBNs
- 008101001X, 0081011156, 9780081010013, 9780081011157
- OCLC
- on1009073869
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Front Cover -- Sensory Panel Management -- Related titles -- Sensory Panel Management: A Practical Handbook for Recruitment, Training and Performance -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Biographies -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - History of sensory panels -- One - The recruitment ofsensory panels -- 2 - Prerecruitment of sensory panels -- 2.1 Different types of panellists -- 2.2 What is a sensory panel -- 2.3 Is a sensory panel required and if so what type of panel is needed -- 2.3.1 Analytical sensory panel -- 2.3.1.1 Advantages and disadvantages -- 2.3.2 Consumer sensory panels -- 2.3.3 Justification for your sensory panel -- 2.3.4 Other types of panel -- 2.4 Developing a job description for a sensory panellist -- 2.5 Approach to recruitment -- 2.5.1 Approach to recruitment for an external analytical sensory panel -- 2.5.2 Approach to recruitment for an internal analytical sensory panel -- 2.5.3 Approach to recruitment for a consumer sensory panel -- 2.6 Other considerations -- 2.6.1 Facilities -- 2.6.2 Staff -- 2.6.3 Staff training -- 3 - Human resources: legal, regulatory and professional requirements -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Employment -- 3.2.1 Internal staff -- 3.2.1.1 Existing staff in other departments -- Management agreement -- Voluntary recruitment -- 3.2.1.2 New staff specialising as sensory panellists -- 3.2.2 Agency staff -- 3.2.3 External 'consumer volunteers' -- 3.3 Contracts and panellist agreements -- 3.3.1 Contracts of employment -- 3.3.2 Voluntary panellist agreements -- 3.4 Confidentiality and anonymity -- 3.4.1 Panellists -- 3.4.2 Company -- 3.5 Data protection -- 3.6 Ethics -- 3.7 Health and safety -- 3.7.1 Introduction -- 3.7.2 Test product safety -- 3.7.3 Labelling, adverse effects and informed consent -- 3.7.4 Records -- 3.8 Future trends -- 4 - How to become an excellent panel leader -- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The details -- 4.2.1 Caring about your panellists -- 4.2.2 Caring about your results -- 4.2.2.1 Recruiting good panellists -- 4.2.2.2 Checking the panellists' and the panel's performance -- 4.2.2.3 Caring for the panellists (pay, respect, motivation, teamwork and enjoyment of job) -- 4.2.2.4 Having suitable facilities -- 4.2.2.5 Having the correct staff -- 4.2.2.6 Having the right procedures and protocols in place to ensure that the experiment is conducted correctly -- 4.2.2.7 Choosing the right method for the objective and the risk -- 4.2.2.8 Having the right type and right number of panellists taking part in the test -- 4.2.2.9 Having the right record keeping procedures and data collection devices -- 4.2.2.10 Having the time to complete the experiment in the correct way -- 4.2.2.11 Having a sensory team that are well trained and kept up to date -- 4.2.3 Setting good objectives for your panellists -- 4.2.4 Panel monitoring and giving great feedback -- 4.2.5 Make a plan for each session -- 4.2.5.1 Example session plan for training a group of new assessors to join an existing work-from-home panel -- Training session 3 outline -- Session objectives -- In advance of activity -- Panel leader's instructions for the session -- Activity sheet for the panellists -- 4.2.6 Running panel sessions -- 4.2.7 Recording information from each panel session -- 4.2.8 Working with your 'clients' -- 4.2.9 Writing reports -- 4.2.10 Asking the right questions and creating the right action standards -- 4.2.11 Palate cleansers for food and cleansers for other products -- 4.2.12 Other options (for being an excellent panel leader) -- 4.3 Training to be a panel leader -- 5 - Recruitment of a sensory panel -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 What do you need in a sensory panellist -- 5.2 Introduction to the recruitment of an internal panel
- 5.3 Introduction to the recruitment of an external panel -- 5.4 Recruitment modules for analytical panels -- 5.4.1 Recruitment Module 1: Internal panel advertising -- 5.4.2 Recruitment Module 2: External panel recruitment planning -- 5.4.3 Recruitment Module 3: External advertising -- 5.4.4 Recruitment Module 4 (RM4): Application process -- 5.4.4. 1RM4 Section 1: The applicant -- 5.4.4. 2RM4 Section 2: Health -- 5.4.4. 3RM4 Section 3: Food habits -- 5.4.4. 4RM4 Section 4: Home and personal care habits -- 5.4.4. 5RM4 Section 5: Interest and availability -- 5.4.5 Recruitment Module 5 (RM5): Sensory screening -- 5.4.5.1 Introduction: Why do we need to screen people for our sensory panels -- 5.4.5.2 Developing the screening tests -- 5.4.5.3 Running the screening tests -- 5.4.5. 4RM5 Section 1: Sight acuity tests -- 5.4.5. 5RM5 Section 2: Basic taste acuity tests -- 5.4.5. 6RM5 Section 3: olfactory screening -- 5.4.5. 7RM5 Section 4: texture screening -- 5.4.5. 8RM5 Section 5: hearing tests -- 5.4.5. 9RM5 Section 6: Discrimination tests for screening -- 5.4.5. 10RM5 Section 7: Scaling tests -- 5.4.5. 11RM5 Section 8: assessing descriptive ability -- 5.4.5. 12RM5 Section 9: Running a mini panel session -- 5.4.5. 13RM5 Section 10: Testing memory -- 5.4.6 Recruitment Module 6 (RM6): Interviewing -- 5.4.6. 1RM6 Section 1: Introduction -- 5.4.6. 2RM6 Section 2: Preparing for the interview -- 5.4.6. 3RM6 Section 3: The interview questions -- 5.4.6. 4RM6 Section 4: Conducting the interview -- 5.4.7 Recruitment Module 7: Panellist selection -- 5.5 Introduction to the recruitment of consumer sensory panels -- 5.5.1 Recruitment Module 8: developing a screener for a consumer study -- 5.5.2 Recruitment Module 9: developing a respondent information sheet -- 5.5.3 Recruitment Module 10: developing an informed consent form for a consumer study
- 5.5.4 Recruitment Module 11: screener questionnaire -- Two - Training of sensory panels -- 6 - Post-screening/initial/introductory training of sensory panels -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Ideas to help your training have maximum impact -- 6.3 Preliminary training plan for sensory panel -- 6.3.1 Tour of the facilities -- 6.3.2 Getting to know you -- 6.3.3 The importance of sensory science to the business -- 6.3.4 Introducing ways of working -- 6.3.5 Negotiating -- 6.3.6 Introduction to the senses -- 6.3.7 Qualitative and quantitative references -- 6.3.8 Other training -- 6.4 Overview of training for a quality control panel -- 6.5 Developing your own training plan -- 6.6 Introducing new panellists to an existing panel -- 7 - Method training for sensory panels -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Training the panel how to assess products/how to use an existing lexicon -- 7.3 Training assessors for sensory discrimination tests -- 7.4 Training assessors for sensory descriptive profiling techniques -- 7.4.1 An introduction to the various sensory descriptive profiling methods -- 7.4.1.1 Flavor profile (Cairncross and Sjostrom, 1950 -- Hootman, 1992) -- 7.4.1.2 Texture profile (Brandt et al., 1963 -- ISO 11036, 1994 -- Hootman, 1992) -- 7.4.1.3 Spectrum descriptive analysis (Meilgaard et al., 2016) -- 7.4.1.4 Quantitative descriptive analysis (Stone et al., 1974 -- Hootman, 1992) -- 7.4.1.5 Deviation from reference profile -- 7.4.1.6 Free choice profiling -- 7.4.1.7 Flash profiling -- 7.4.1.8 Polarised sensory positioning -- 7.4.1.9 Pivot profile -- 7.4.1.10 Temporal dominance of sensations -- 7.4.1.11 Progressive profiling and sequential profiling -- 7.4.1.12 Ideal profile method -- 7.4.2 Language development -- 7.4.2.1 Introduction -- 7.4.2.2 Repertory grid approach to demonstrate the importance of language -- 7.4.2.3 Children's construction blocks language helper
- 7.4.3 Scale training -- 7.4.3.1 An introduction to scales for the panel leader -- 7.4.3.2 Training panellists in the use of scales -- 7.5 Training a time-intensity panel -- 7.5.1 Session plan for training a panel to create continuous time-intensity profiles for greasiness of skin creams during applica... -- Session 1: Introduction to time-intensity (2hours) -- Session 2: Development of protocol -- Session 3: Trying out the protocol and software in the booths -- Session 4: Assessment of the sample set -- Session 5: Practice, practice, practice -- Session 6 and 7: Data collection -- 7.6 Training for rapid methods -- 7.6.1 Introduction to rapid methods -- 7.6.2 Session plan and information for ultra-flash profiling -- Before the session -- On the day -- 7.6.3 Session plan and information for check-all-that-apply -- 7.6.3.1 Session plan -- Session 1 -- Session 2 -- 7.7 Validation of panel training -- 8 - Product assessment/orientation for sensory panels -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Session plans for a discrimination or quality control type panel -- 8.2.1 Session plan for a discrimination panel -- Session plan -- 8.2.2 Session plan for training a quality control panel on a new product line -- Session plan -- 8.3 Session plans for a qualitative descriptive profile panel -- 8.3.1 Session plan for a qualitative profile -- Session plan -- 8.4 Session plans for a quantitative descriptive profile panel -- 8.4.1 Session plan for a quantitative profile example 1: food product -- Product orientation sessions profile panel -- 8.4.2 Session plan for a quantitative profile example 2: home and personal care product -- 8.5 Session plans to determine shelf life -- 8.5.1 Plan for small-scale consumer study -- 9 - Refresher training for sensory panels -- 9.1 Refresher training for a quality control training session on off-notes
- 9.1.1 Session plan for a quality control panel training on off-notes