COMPILATION OF ODOR AND TASTE THRESHOLD VALUES DATA

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Committee E-18 on Sensory Evaluation of Materials and Products AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS

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May 1973

Foreword

This report is truly the result of a committee effort. The editor would like to express his sincere appreciation for the efforts of the very many members of ASTM Committee E-18, too numerous to list separately who, over the several years of preparation for this publication, have given freely of their time. A significant num- ber of the compounds reported on have been given to us from the personal files of Dr. Birger Drake of the Swedish Institute for Food Preservation Research. In particular, he would like to extend special thanks to Mr. Harry McDaniel of the Proctor and Gamble Company for his extensive help in the keypunching of this information. Prof. John Powers of the University of Georgia was particularly help- ful in assisting in the writing of the introduction.

Special thanks should go to four individuals outside of Committee E-18. Mr. Charles F. Eason of Assess, Inc., Bethesda, Md., has volunteered his time and has been the prime mover in programming and formating the computerization of this compilation. Mrs. Elizabeth Shields, Librarian for McCormick and Company has given much of her time in the many manuscript revisions and typing, and Dr. W. G. Galetto of the same company has spent many hours in coordinating and checking the data as it came piecemeal from the computer operation. Special thanks to Mr. William J. Wiswesser, the originator of the Wiswesser Line Notation for Chemical Nomenclature. He gave unstintingly of his time to translate our threshold chemicals to a line notation which has allowed us to build flexibility in a computer search that no other system would allow. We also thank him for his many suggestions, born out of his long experience in this field, that we have found extremely useful and undoubtedly has served to improve our compilation.

Related ASTM Publications

Basic Principles of Sensory Evaluation, STP 433 (1968), $5.75 (04-433000-36)

Manual on Sensory Testing Methods, STP 434 (1968), $4.24 (04-434000-36)

Correlation of Subjective-Objective Methods in the Study of Odors and Taste, STP 440 (1968), $5.75 (04-440000-36)

Review of Correlation of Objective-Subjective Methods in the Study of Odors and Tastes, STP 451 (1969), $2.00 (04-451000-36)