ABSTRACT
The name Spectrum covers a procedure designed by Civille and developed over the years
in collaboration with a number of companies that were looking for a way to obtain repro-
ducible and repeatable sensory descriptive analysis of their products (Mun
˜
oz and Civille
1992, 1998). The philosophy of Spectrum is pragmatic: it provides the tools with which to
design a descriptive procedure for a given product category. The principal tools are the
reference lists contained in Appendix 11.1 through Appendix 11.3, together with
the scaling procedures and methods of panel training described in Chapter 5 and
Chapter 9. The aim is to choose the most practical system, given the product in question,
the overall sensory program, the specific project objective(s) in developing a panel, and the
desired level of statistical treatment of the data.
