ASTM International has published at the end of August the E3412-25, "Standard Guide to Design, Conduct, and Analyze Sensory and Instrumental Data Relationships," as a novel active standard within BOS Volume 14.03 (DOI: 10.1520/E3412-25). This 11-page guide establishes protocols for correlating trained sensory panel ratings with instrumental physicochemical measurements across food/beverage, personal/household care, and consumer products.
Instrumental and sensory analyses can be integrated in research to explore complementary, confirmatory, or both types of data, commonly supporting product development, quality control processes, and sensory investigations. This new ASTM E3412-25 offers critical considerations for the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of relationships between analytical sensory evaluations and instrumental measurements.
ASTM Committee E18 on Sensory Evaluation, Subcommittee E18.03 on Sensory and Instrumental Data Relationships developed the guide under ICS codes 35.040.99 (IT applications in information analysis), 67.240 (sensory analysis), and 67.250 (fruit/vegetable analyses).
There is not much information about this standard on the official website, so if you are interested in the topic, there is no other option but to buy the standard. However, if Mike feels like writing a comment below this news, I would check that first.
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