Qualimetric assessment of food products

An important objective of the food industry enterprise is production of competitive and high-quality products. This is possible only at creation of effective quality management system that operates on the basis of the application of progressive methods of the production control and management. To obtain high result, it is necessary to understand the level of quality of the products from the consumers point of view. Qualimetric methods are used to evaluate this parameter. In work carried out with the aim to study the level of ice cream quality, an algorithm of qualimetric evaluation has been developed based on the «tree of properties», application of sociological and expert methods. This scheme can be used at enterprises producing food products to assess the level of products quality and competitiveness with respect to other producers.

qualimetric, competitiveness, progressive methods, «tree of properties», sociological and expert methods, level of quality