Susan Rogers
Section Manager - Sensory Testing Services
Qualifications
- BSc: Applied Food Science
- IEHO Intermediate and Advanced Food Hygiene
- IFST Accredited Sensory EvaluationTraining (Foundation and Intermediate level)
- IOSH Managing Safely
About
Susan has a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience in sensory science and has worked at Campden BRI since 1999. Her first sensory role was Discrimination Projects Manager, working predominantly with taint investigation of food, and managing the Defence Food Services Quality Assurance contract (providing sensory, technical and analytical food testing services for the UK armed services). Susan has also worked as Sensory Projects Manager (Discrimination and Descriptive Projects) and is currently Sensory Insights Section Manager responsible for new business development and managing the sensory project teams activities.
Alongside supporting various client projects through sensory and other data, Susan also lectures on our sensory training courses.
Areas of interest
- Sensory Science
- Quality Mangement
- Food Safety
- Sensory evaluation
- Shelf-life testing
- Taint Testing
Susan holds a Degree in Applied Food Science from Queen Margaret University and holds the IFST-accredited Sensory Evaluation Certificates at both introductory and intermediate level. Before joining us, Susan worked in various technical, product development and quality control roles, predominantly with snack seasonings and bakery. As Quality Assurance Manager for Dawn Foods, Evesham she successfully led the company through ISO9001 Quality Management Standard and gained considerable experience in quality systems auditing and training.