What is the Mobile Sensory Laboratory?
The Mobile Sensory Laboratory facility brings the latest imaging and meat quality testing technologies direct to where it’s needed, supporting research, animal breeding programmes and ensuring consumer preferences are at the heart of the innovation process.
The sensory lab, equipped with state-of-the-art imaging and product quality technologies uniquely housed within an articulated lorry, can travel around the UK. It enables companies to capture very large amounts of consumer data concerned with sensory aspects (organoleptic traits) related to product quality.
The mobile lab is versatile in its applications, able to deliver trained/semi-trained or consumer sensory data collection. Standardising the testing platform in a mobile facility enables geographical and demographical studies with consumers to be easily applied.
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This Capability is based at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)’s Easter Howgate Farm site. SRUC is a specialist institution offering college and university level courses. SRUC strives to help grow a natural economy fuelled by the responsible use of the world’s natural resources: people, land, energy, water, animals and plants.
