A proposed standard procedure for taint tests with agricultural chemicals

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Summary. This paper has been prepared under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on Taint of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and is intended to meet the need for a standard procedure for taint tests with agricultural chemicals on processed foodstuffs of plant origin. the paper is divided into two main parts. the first section deals with trial design and site, chemical application, crops, sampling procedure, packing of raw materials, transport and storage of samples, processing and number of tests required to indicate whether a chemical substance may be accepted as being free from tainting characteristics. the second section deals with various aspects of the tasting tests, such as method employed, suitability and numbers of tasters, place and time of tasting and preparation of samples for tasting. the proposed method of tasting is the triangular test and details of calculating the results are given, together with appendices presenting the necessary tables and a worked example.

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