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PROFICIENCY
Over 2.5 million tasting responses, over 70,000 tasters participating and over 3000 sites enrolled. Our Taster Validation Programs calibrate, maintain and enhance the sensory abilities of trained tasters.
CALIBRATE YOUR SENSORY ABILITIES
Taster Calibration or Proficiency, as it’s known, is the measurement tool by which FlavorActiV regularly validates the sensory abilities of taste panels at over 3000 sites in almost all food and beverage sectors. The tool provides participating sites with live access to their taster’s data, which can be broken down and presented in a multitude of ways to give a full picture of sensory performance over time.
This food and beverage quality control program gives brands using tasters to test samples with the ability to calibrate their taster’s performance. By keeping tabs on their performance, brand owners can see if their taste panels are working at peak levels and determine when a taster needs additional training. It’s an excellent tool for food and beverage quality control and product improvement, Find out if Proficiency meets your needs.
HOW IT WORKS
Calibration is the next step for trained tasters to validate the established learnings they’ve gained about beverage quality control. The idea is simple, blind tasting packs of FlavorActiV’s GMP Flavour Standards are sent out to tasting panels around the world at specified intervals, these packs align with a series of tests that challenge flavour identification, whether a sample is in or out of specification, and intensity scoring. Once a panel tasting session is complete, the panel leaders will submit results and be presented with a detailed breakdown of individual and panel performance across the entire organisation.
Tasting panels are the QC backbone of the beverage industry and it’s incredibly powerful for a panel leader or organisation to have ongoing insight into internal tasting abilities, as it is for individual tasters to be able to validate their own abilities. With the learnings, brands can identify the ‘aces in their places’ and equally implement specific learning sessions where gaps might be spotted. Tasting panels provide a wealth of data and it’s through calibration that we can ensure the quality of this data. The tool provides QA professionals with invaluable information to make informed decisions regarding their sensory programs.
TASTER CALIBRATION PROGRAM TESTS
IN / OUT
Tests the ability to identify defects outside of product quality specification
CONFORMANCE
Rating guide for whether a product meets specification standards, and if not, naming the specific defect.
FLAVOUR ID
Tests the ability to identify specific flavours.
RANK RATING
Tests the ability to scale the intensity of flavours.
1/5
Level 1
Entry level suitable for a basic understanding of quality
2/5
Level 2
Suitable for a progressive understanding of quality
3/5
Level 3
Suitable for tasters with an in-depth sensory skill set
4/5
Level 4
A more complex program designed for experienced tasters.
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