Risk assessment of negative sensory effects in product development using the benchmark dose (BMD) Methodology for continuous data

Abstract

The Benchmark Dose (BMD) methodology is a statistical tool for quantitative risk assessment. It has been developed as an alternative to the approach of "no observed adverse effect level" or "lowest observed adverse effect level" during the last decades in many scientific fields for risk assessment. Because risk is various and ubiquitous, the BMD methodology has potential applications in the food science field for risk assessment of negative sensory effects in product development and sensory and consumer research. This paper discusses the BMD analysis in a product development effort using ratings data and Thurstonian discriminal d′ data.