WATER OPEN PROFICIENCY PROGRAM – SINGLE ROUND

WATER OPEN PROFICIENCY PROGRAM – SINGLE ROUND

The Water Open Proficiency Program (Single Round) is a professional sensory testing scheme that measures a taster’s ability to detect and identify off-flavours in water. Designed for water utility companies, bottling plants, and beverage organisations, the single round provides a pay-as-you-go entry point to structured sensory proficiency testing.

Each single-round pack contains one calibration kit shipped immediately upon order confirmation. Participants complete an IN/OUT proficiency test with 14 recognised water Flavour Standards, then log results directly into the FlavorActiV TVS2 digital platform.

£350.00 GBP

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We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region

Minimum Order: £275

WHAT IS A WATER SENSORY PROFICIENCY PROGRAM?

A water sensory proficiency program is a structured scheme that tests whether trained tasters can correctly identify flavour defects that fall outside a product’s quality specification. It is used across the water and beverage industry to:

– Validate the accuracy of sensory panellists
– Monitor and maintain tasting performance over time
– Reduce the risk of releasing water that fails quality standards
– Provide objective benchmarking for training programmes

Proficiency testing is the logical next step after completing initial flavour recognition training with GMP Flavour Standards. The FlavorActiV Water Open Proficiency Program is an open scheme, meaning any organisation can enrol without prior membership.

WHAT FLAVOURS ARE TESTED IN THE WATER PROFICIENCY SCHEME?

The program covers 14 key water off-flavours, along with a clean Control sample. These align with recognised industry standards for water sensory evaluation:

– Acetaldehyde
– Almond
– Bell Pepper
– Chlorine
– Chlorophenol
– Cucumber
– DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide)
– Dry Hay
– Earthy (Dry Earth)
– H2S (Hydrogen Sulphide)
– Indole
– Musty
– Plastics
Rotten Vegetable

HOW THE SINGLE-ROUND PROGRAM WORKS

The single-round format is designed for organisations trialling the FlavorActiV proficiency platform for the first time or those needing occasional, non-recurring sensory validation.

Step 1 – Order and Receive Your Calibration Pack
After your order, a single calibration pack is shipped. It contains GMP-grade Flavour Standard capsules representing the 14 off-flavours in the scheme, plus a control sample.

Step 2 – Complete the IN/OUT Proficiency Test
Participants taste each sample and determine whether it is IN specification (acceptable) or OUT of specification (a detectable defect). This method is widely used in beverage quality control and follows international sensory evaluation standards.

Step 3 – Log Results on the TVS2 Platform
Once tasting is complete, results are submitted via the FlavorActiV TVS2 platform. Single-round participants have limited access. Full access, including performance tracking, historical trend data, and certification, is exclusive to annual subscribers.

The TVS2 platform is mobile-friendly and accessible globally, allowing results to be submitted from any location.

SINGLE ROUND VS ANNUAL PROGRAM

Single Round Annual Program
No of Rounds 1 4
Cost per round £350 £300
TVS Access Limited Full
Certification No Yes
Proficiency Test In/Out In/Out
Subscription Pay as you go Annual subscription

Round 1 only – Shipped on order confirmation

WHY ENROLL IN THE WATER OPEN PROFICIENCY PROGRAM?

Some of the benefits of joining The Water Open Proficiency Program:

– Reduce risk of undesirable product release
– Sensory feedback from across the whole beverage organisation, water utility company or bottling plant
– Reduced specialised sensory training costs for panellists
– Learn strengths and weaknesses to hone skills accordingly
– Encourages staff retention and attracts new talent
– Improves product awareness

WHO SHOULD USE THIS PROGRAM?

This program is ideal for:

– Beverage manufacturers
– Bottling plants
– Water utilities
– Quality control teams
– Sensory panellists and analysts

It is especially useful for teams trialling a sensory evaluation system before committing to a full annual program.

ORDER YOUR SINGLE-ROUND PACK TODAY

Ready to test your water tasting skills? Order the Water Open Proficiency Program single-round pack and receive your calibration kit immediately. No subscription required.

FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standards

Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.

We produce encapsulated GMP (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Standards that are safe to both smell and drink. The compounds within our capsules impart the aroma, taste and mouthfeel of a specific defect or positive flavour into a beverage for the purposes of taster training, calibration and quality control.

Our individual flavour GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour, each flavour pack contains 5 capsules, each separately blister packaged. Our sensory kits contain a mixture of flavours, each separately blister packaged, read the product description for flavour details.

We ship globally, and have over 20 years of experience at it. Our GMP Pharmaceutical Flavour Standards are produced to the highest standards, and as such, their shelf-life is strong and their quality consistent.

FlavorActiV’s flavour centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to the production of flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility housed within the campus of world-renowned Quay Pharma near Liverpool in the U.K.

The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products.

All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated flavour standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma who are audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.

Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.

We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.

Industry leading packaging and shelf-life

FlavorActiV flavour standards are blister packaged, which extends shelf-life and protects capsules from potential contamination. The average shelf-life of FlavorActiV flavour standards is 18 months to 4 years, depending on the flavour compounds.

We will never ship in pots or plastic packaging, here’s why…

Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. Blister packaging greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule individually blister packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected. FlavorActiV Flavour Standard packaging is 100% recyclable, as opposed to polypropylene which is not widely recycled.

Pots are semi-porous, they allow molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost, their significant headspace also adds to substantial flavour escape as a gas, even when using just one capsule all those remaining in the pot are exposed.

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