The Relationship Between Gender, Age, and Consumption Habits of the Employee from PT Firmenich Indonesia and The Result of Recognition Test

Abstract

PT Firmenich Indonesia is a company that produced flavors and fragrances. Its stakeholder are Firmenich Trading Corporation and PT Indesso Aroma. There are 3 main activities in PT Firmenich Indonesia which are planning, production, and quality control. Quality control is one of the divisions in here. This division is located in the QHSE superdivision. Checking the quality of raw materials and finished goods is their main job. There are three projects that author conducted in this company, which are specification legacy review, prescreening sensory panelists, and validation reagent shelf life. Prescreening sensory panelists is the main project that is used for sorting potential panelist who has a good ability to conduct sensory test. Sensory test is a critical test in the flavor industry because it is used for evaluating the quality of flavor products. Chi-Square method is used for analyzing prescreening sensory data in order to evaluate whether there is any relationship between gender, age, and habit with the result of recognition taste. The observation showed there is no statistically significant relationship between variables, since all of their significant value is larger than 0.05. The addition amount of participant and the utilization of several sensory type test are needed to ease the correlation making.