Food Standards and Quality Assurance — Summer 2023

(i) Give applications of sensory evaluation for food products? (ii) Explain threshold level with an example. (iii) Explain triangle test?

Answer the following:

What do you understand by confidence level? (ii) Define α and β risk with reference to food industry. (iii) Define the term olfaction. (iv) Calculate the degrees of freedom enjoyed by a binomial distribution.

Answer the following:

AGMARK facilitates consumer to choose the product. Justify. (ii) What is SQF1000 certification? (iii) Define quality control and quality assurance. (iv) Why employees are considered to be an essence of an organization?

State the importance of Quality Function Deployment. (vi) What are advantages of Idophor as disinfecting agent? (vii) Why does an organization need vision and mission statement?

Define Poisson’s distribution and state its application. For a Poisson’s distribution, p(1) = 0.5. Calculate the following:

Mean and SD of the distribution (ii) p(1 or 2)

Explain simple and composite hypotheses with examples. Explain Type-Iand Type-II errors in QC terminology?

Answer the following:

Define ‘Control’? (ii) State the law of conditional probability. (iii) Define Adaptation with an example. (iv) What is composite scoring test?

Define halo effect. (vi) What is Ranking test? OR1

Identify and mark statements as TRUE/FALSE and rewrite them after corrections if any.

What do you understand by ISO 9001?

Explain 5’S? Enlist the advantages of 5’S.

Enlist and explain seven principles of HACCP.

Explain the need of BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards).

Explain 3-sigma accuracy. Afood company is manufacturing mixed vegetable sauce. The specification for total solids is in the range of 34 – 40%. The process gives a mean (µ) of 36.8 and standard deviation 0.80. Calculate process capability and process capability index? Comment on the results.

Write briefly (Any Two):

Explain Deming’s wheel with seven steps. (ii) PDCA cycle (iii) NABL accreditation

Define Normal distribution and state its importance? Show that the function N(x) =2 3 e − 3 ( x − 5 ) 203 ; - ∞ < x < ∞, represents a Normal distribution function.  Calculate its mean, standard deviation and variance.

Explain Student t-test. Measurement of % total soluble solids performed on random samples of two brands of bottled tomato paste gave the following results: It is Brand X 30 31 28 29 32 Brand Y 33.2 33 31 33 29 claimed that brand Yhas higher total solids than brand X. Examine this claim at α = 1%. [ t = 1.86 at d.f.= 4 and α = 1%]

Write short notes on the following:

Dilution test (ii) F-Test (iii) Regression (iv) UMVUE

Significance level (vi) Neyman and Pearson lemma (vii) r-index

Two samples X & Yof RTE snack food were subjected to Triangle Test to determine which one is preferred. It was found that Xwas preferred 20 times while Ywas preferred 10 times. Anull hypothesis Hwas set up to state that the o desired preference for X & Yshould be 12 & 15 times respectively. Examine if there is significant difference between the hypothesized & observed results. χ2 - Values Degrees of Significance level, α Freedom (df) 1% 5% 1 6.35 3.85 2 9.23 6.0 3 11.33 7.86 4 13.33 9.69 5 15.12 11.13 6 16.2 12 .3

Explain Ishikawa diagram?

Briefly explain the implementation stages of TQM. What are the obstacles in implementing total quality management system in food industry?

Discuss the following briefly (Any Two):

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) (ii) KAIZEN (iii) Scope and the mandate of FSSAI Act and Regulations.

What is SWOT analysis? State the significance of SWOT in TQM.

04 Define Quality Audit. Discuss the different types of audit based on time frame and scope.

07 Why is customer satisfaction important in today’s era? Explain the relation of value addition with customer satisfaction with the help of d iagrammatic representation.