ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Food Processing Technology, Food Safety & Quality, Processing and Food Engineering · India · ICAR through the National Testing Agency
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersTaking a food from idea to launch: consumer insight, stage-gate development, formulation and reformulation, prototype and pilot-scale trials, optimisation by experimental design, costing, shelf-life and regulatory checks, labelling and test marketing.
In the exams: ICAR AICE 35.a Unit 8 (consumer trends and new product development); PG projects and industry R&D roles
ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Food Processing Technology, Food Safety & Quality, Processing and Food Engineering
35.a Unit 8 names consumer sciences, product development and health foods: stage-gate stages, concept screening, Kano and conjoint, formulation and reformulation strategies, experimental designs and run counts, scale-up, costing and break-even, labelling checks, sensory tests and intellectual property.
How our questions for ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF spread across the units of New Food Product Development & Formulation. Difficulty: 0 easy, 11 medium, 17 hard.
| Optimisation by experimental design | 5 | |
| Consumer trends and sources of product ideas | 3 | |
| Intellectual property: patents, trademarks and trade secrets | 3 | |
| The stage-gate development process | 2 | |
| Concept development and screening | 2 | |
| Formulation principles and ingredient selection | 2 | |
| Reformulation for salt, sugar and fat reduction | 2 | |
| Prototype, pilot plant and scale-up trials | 2 | |
| Product costing | 2 | |
| Packaging selection for new products | 2 | |
| Test marketing and commercial launch | 2 | |
| Regulatory and labelling checks for a new product | 1 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
Which type of new product usually carries the highest risk?
A. New-to-the-world products
And the highest potential reward.
Further reading: Earle, Earle and Anderson, Food Product Development; Fuller, New Food Product Development
A Box-Behnken design for 3 factors with 3 centre points requires how many runs?
A. 15
12 edge-midpoint runs + 3 centre points = 15.
Further reading: Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments
Fractional factorial and Plackett-Burman designs are used mainly to:
D. Screen many factors in few runs
They sacrifice higher-order interactions.
Further reading: Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments
After finding a predicted optimum by response surface methodology, the developer should:
B. Run verification trials
Models must be confirmed.
Further reading: Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments
With Q10 = 2, a product lasting 3 months at 40 °C is predicted to last how long at 25 °C?
C. About 8.5 months
3 × 2^1.5 = 3 × 2.83 = 8.5 months.
Further reading: Earle, Earle and Anderson, Food Product Development; Fuller, New Food Product Development
A product is reformulated to include a new milk-derived ingredient. What must happen to the label?
A. Update the allergen list
Old stock and labels must be controlled.
Further reading: Earle, Earle and Anderson, Food Product Development; Fuller, New Food Product Development
Why should packaging be selected together with the formulation rather than after it?
D. Packaging shapes shelf life too
Validate both together in shelf-life studies.
Further reading: Earle, Earle and Anderson, Food Product Development; Fuller, New Food Product Development
Just-about-right scales are used to:
A. Diagnose attribute levels
They guide reformulation.
Further reading: Lawless and Heymann, Sensory Evaluation of Food
What is the main weakness of a trade secret compared with a patent?
D. Reverse engineering is not barred
But it can last indefinitely if kept secret.
Further reading: Indian Patents Act 1970; Trade Marks Act 1999; Designs Act 2000
India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library helps to:
D. Block wrong patents
Prior art for patent examiners.
Further reading: Indian Patents Act 1970; Trade Marks Act 1999; Designs Act 2000
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