SDA™ Data from fully trained panels
Spectrum Descriptive Analysis Panels
Food & Beverage
Spectrum Descriptive Analysis (SDA) is a trusted method where highly trained panelists use their senses to describe and scale products. Our food panel is comprised for fully trained and validated panelists.
Get To Know Us
​Our panels can support your business objectives in a variety of ways including:
​
-
Descriptive Analysis / Descriptive Profiling
-
Benchtop Testing
-
Clinical Research
-
Quality Assurance
-
Shelf-life Testing
Learn More
Aroma & Malodor
Spectrum Descriptive Analysis (SDA) is a trusted method where highly trained panelists use their senses to describe and scale products. Our food panel is comprised for fully trained and validated panelists.
Get To Know Us
​Our panels can support your business objectives in a variety of ways including:
​
-
Descriptive Analysis / Descriptive Profiling
-
Benchtop Testing
-
Clinical Research
-
Quality Assurance
-
Shelf-life Testing
Learn More
Personal Care Products
Sensory Spectrum maintains two personal care panels that operate from our North Carolina facility. Both panels are trained to evaluate diverse categories including: lotions, soaps, hair care, hand-feel (fabrics, paper towels, facial and toilet tissues), color cosmetics and much more.
Get To Know Us
Lisa Codespot
Program Manager
Laura Finnimore
Panel Leader
Teresa Gunner
Panel Leader
​Our panels can support your business objectives in a variety of ways including:
​
-
Descriptive Analysis / Descriptive Profiling
-
Benchtop Testing
-
Clinical Research
-
Quality Assurance
-
Shelf-life Testing
Learn More
Discrimination & Quality
Sensory Spectrum can help you design and execute a discrimination test that addresses your individual needs. Tests such as Triangle Tests, Paired Comparison, Tetrad, etc. can help you understand the effects of raw materials changes, new processes, and shelf-life. We can execute and interpret these types of tests.
​
The Sensory Quality Audit ensures that your manufacturing process is delivering the best quality product to your consumer in a cost effective and rapid way. Sensory Spectrum has developed an integrated product quality scale that defines target product properties and measures against a target with a simple, easy to understand score. We also provide qualitative justification for the score and recommendations for improving the sensory quality when your product is “out of spec.” This allows for determination of the sources of positive and negative characteristics and their influence on overall quality.
Get To Know Us
Katie Osdoba
Subject Matter Expert
Lisa Codespot
Program Manager
​Our panels can support your business objectives in a variety of ways including:
​​​
-
Quality Assurance
-
Program Audits
-
Shelf-life Testing
Learn More
Sensory Spectrum understands the strategic role sensory science plays in food and beverage R&D better than any partner I have worked with. They have been a great partner over a number of years, bringing expertise and creativity to mapping sensory attributes across the full development life cycle, from initial product development to consumer perception. With its unique passion for understanding sensory properties and how they influence consumer mindsets, purchases, and loyalty, Sensory Spectrum will continue to be a valuable resource for my research teams.