The study focused on developing and testing a computer model that has the potential to pinpoint locations in a food manufacturing facility where Lm might be found.
New research funded in part by the Frozen Food Foundation, a non-profit arm of American Frozen Food Institute, Arlington, Va., reveals a possible solution for controlling Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in food manufacturing facilities.
Panelists rated the pungency of the blue cheese significantly higher in the cow barn setting than in the sensory booth or the virtual park bench.
Food scientists from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., used virtual reality (VR) to show how people's perception of real food can be altered by their surroundings, according to "Dynamic Context Sensory Testing–A Proof of Concept Study Bringing Virtual Reality to the Sensory Booth."