Sensory Shelf Life Estimation of Food Products

By Guillermo Hough

A delineation of the basics of sensory analysis and how it applies to shelf-life studies, this book includes discussions of experimental design aspects, survival analysis methodology, and its extensions. It provides detailed instructions and software functions for performing SSL estimations, accompanied by data sets and the R Statistical Package functions that are available for download. The author presents the cut-off point methodology used to estimate SSL when the survival analysis methods get complicated. He includes a chapter on accelerated storage covering kinetics, calculations of prediction confidence intervals and potential pitfalls.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142009291X
• ISBN13: 9781420092912
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"