Sensory Scientist Will Give Seminar at NMSU

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Food processors interested in using sensory evaluation to develop food products can attend a New Mexico State University seminar Nov. 4. Anna María Pérez-Wright has more.

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Hildegarde Heymann, a University of Missouri professor and leading sensory scientist, will give a seminar to professional food processors at New Mexico State University November 4th. Food technology specialist Nancy Flores with N-M-S-U's Cooperative Extension Service says New Mexico food processors don't have a sensory center available to help them meet customers' needs.

"We would like to have a sensory center here to help food processors in product development and to also help processors really know what their shelf life is for products because a lot of that is determined by what it tastes like."

Space for a Food Product Development Laboratory and Sensory Evaluation Center has been set aside in Gerald Thomas Hall on the N-M-S-U campus. Flores says Heymann will help N-M-S-U scientists determine requirements for the sensory center.

"Once we have a better idea of what we need to do, then we can draw up some proposals and look for appropriate grants to do this."

The free seminar November 4th is from 2:30 until 4 p.m. and is open to the public. For information, call Flores at (505) 646-1179. For N-M-S-U's College of Agriculture and Home Economics, I'm Anna María Pérez-Wright.