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Taste‐and‐Odor Control: The Nose Still Knows Best
Author(s) -
Burlingame Gary A.,
Dietrich Andrea M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.5991/opf.2015.41.0047
Subject(s) - odor , taste , quality (philosophy) , categorization , control (management) , psychology , sight , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , epistemology , philosophy , physics , astronomy
Early days of determining water quality involved imprecise sight, smell, and taste assessments. Significant strides have been made with analytical methods in the past several decades to categorize and understand water's sensory characteristics for selecting treatment methods, controlling sources, and focusing monitoring. No matter how far we've come, though, water consumers remain the final judges of quality.