Food Scientists and Technologists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Air samplers or collectors (Air sampling systems)
• Amino acid analyzers
• Viscosimeters (Amylographs)
• Anaerobic chamber (Anaerobic growth chambers)
• Analytical balances
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Laboratory diluters (Automatic diluters)
• Autosamplers
• Microbiology analyzers (Bacterial identification systems)
• Commercial use deep fryers (Batch fryers)
• Nephelometers (Benchtop nephelometers)
• Sterilization cabinets (Biological safety cabinets)
• Tissue culture incubators (Bioreactors)
• Blast freezers
• Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Carbon dioxide CO2 laboratory incubators)
• Color sensors (Color difference meters)
• Colorimeters
• Calorimeters (Computerized calorimeters)
• Conductivity meters
• Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters (Coulter counters)
• Darkfield microscopes
• Dehydrators (Dehydration equipment)
• Juicing machinery (Dejuicers)
• Desktop computers
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters (Differential refractometers)
• Oscilloscopes (Digital oscilloscopes)
• Dehydrating machinery (Drum dryers)
• Light scattering equipment (Dynamic light scattering equipment)
• Thermal differential analyzers (Dynamic mechanical analyzers DMA)
• Laboratory balances (Electronic laboratory balances)
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Emulsifiers)
• Fluorescent microscopes (Epifluorescence microscopes)
• Extracting equipment for laboratories (Extractors)
• Standard fermentation units (Fermenting tanks)
• Commercial use food choppers or cubers or dicers (Food choppers)
• Crushing machinery (Food crushers)
• Dehydrating machinery (Food dehydrators)
• Commercial use mixers (Food mixers)
• Commercial use food slicers (Food slicers)
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Electrophoresis system accessories (Fraction collectors)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze drying equipment)
• Crushing machinery (Fruit presses)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Gel documentation systems (Gel electrophoresis equipment)
• Sugar analyzers (Glucose analyzers)
• Commercial use griddles (Griddles)
• Commercial use grills (Grills)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Heat exchangers)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (High speed refrigerated centrifuges)
• Homogenizers
• Ice cream machines (Ice cream freezers)
• Commercial use ranges (Induction cooktops)
• Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectrometers)
• Ion chromatographs
• Cooking machinery (Jet cooking systems)
• Lasers (Laboratory lasers)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
• Laboratory mills
• Water baths (Laboratory water baths)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Electronic counters (Laser colony counters)
• Kjeldahl nitrogen determination apparatus (Macro kjeldahls)
• Mass spectrometers
• Commercial use food grinders (Meat grinders)
• Cutting machinery (Meat saws)
• Melting point recorders (Melting point apparatus)
• Laboratory membrane filters (Membrane filtration systems)
• Kjeldahl nitrogen determination apparatus (Micro kjeldahls)
• Microbiological aircontrol equipment (Microbial monitoring systems)
• Microcentrifuges
• Commercial use microwave ovens (Microwave ovens)
• Laboratory box furnaces (Muffle furnaces)
• Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer (Nitrogen analyzers)
• Orbital shaking water baths
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Ovens)
• Oxygen gas analyzers (Oxygen analyzers)
• Personal computers
• pH meters (pH indicators)
• Darkfield microscopes (Phase contrast microscopes)
• Filling machinery (Piston filling machines)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Plate heat exchangers)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Programmable incubators)
• Crushing machinery (Pulper finishers)
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Pulsifiers)
• Commercial use ranges (Ranges)
• Spectrometers (Reflectance spectrometers)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Flask or retort units (Retort sterilization equipment)
• Rheometers
• Roasting machinery (Roasting equipment)
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators (Rotary evaporators)
• Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
• Microplate readers (Scanning plate readers)
• Fat extractors (Specific gravity fat analyzers)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Spectrofluorimeters)
• Microbiology analyzers (Spiral platers)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steam autoclaves)
• Blanching machinery (Steam blanchers)
• Commercial use steamers (Steam kettles)
• Stomachers
• Strain gauges (Strain testers)
• Filling machinery (Stuffers)
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Thermal cyclers)
• Thermo gravimetry analyzers (Thermal gravimetric analyzers)
• Cooking machinery (Thermal processing equipment)
• Solution strength estimation apparatus (Torsion gelometers)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Tubular heat exchangers)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Ultraviolet UV spectrometers)
• Packaging vacuum (Vacuum packagers)
• Viscosimeters (Viscometers)
• Water analysis systems (Water activity meters)
• X ray diffraction equipment (X ray crystallography equipment)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• BioDiscovery ImaGene
• Image analysis software
• Insightful S-PLUS
• MDS Analytical Technologies GenePix Pro
• Sensory Computer Systems SIMS
• StatSoft STATISTICA software

• Data base user interface and query software

• PathogenTracker
• U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA National Nutrient Database

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)