How your company benefits:
You personally will become more secure when dealing with organoleptic topics, especially with print products for food-stuffs. In the end you will be able to build-up an organoleptic panel.

Brief description/Field of activity:
Parts of the packaging (cardboard/paper, printing ink/lacquer, glues) as well as the filled goods (liquid and non-liquid foodstuffs) may react chemically or physically. The manufacturing technology may also involve organoleptic contamination. Therefore it is important to localise the source of extraction of an undesired substance. Whether a packaging material has any inherent odour or whether some substances have migrated into the filled goods – both can be controlled by a Robinson test.

Goals:
You know the demands for organoleptic tests and you are able to prepare and make taste and odour evaluations. You know the most influencing factors on the test result.

Target group:
Print shops and converter who apply organoleptic tests or evaluate the results.

Tops:
• Why organolepic tests?
Interaction of packaging – contents
• Parameters for organoleptic tests
• Preparing the samples
• Practise: Robinson test, evaluation of the samples
• Building an organoleptic panel
• Practice: Training of test persons to carry out organoleptic tests
• Alternative methods Hexanal, migration, e-nose, remaining solvent
analysis
• Factors that can influence organoleptic test results
All topics are documented in a seminar script.