Predicting Milk/Food Quality with Chemometrics

Improve your modelling skills and gain deeper insights into the “how” of milk/food quality.

“Nowadays, chemometric models drive faster analysis of results and product development”.

Would you like to look beyond the milk/food products to gain deeper insight that can drive product innovation and development to get your future ready? Then, this course is for you! Conventional methods for milk/food quality evaluation based on chemical or microbiological analysis followed by traditional univariate statistics such as ANOVA are considered insufficient for milk/food quality predictions because they examine only one factor at a time to understand its effect. More sophisticated instrumental methods including spectroscopy, in combination with multivariate analysis such as chemometrics, can be used to gain deeper insights into the “how” of milk/food quality for product and process design. This practical training will introduce you to Chemometrics which is considered a rapid and efficient way to analyse a milk/food matrix beyond univariate dimensionality to uncover the hidden patterns and to quantify the analyte constituents that matter within the complex instrumental datasets. During the training, the methods will be demonstrated with worked examples of real industry datasets to help you gain valuable practical experience in predictive modelling of quality attributes of milk/foods. You need to attend the 4 weeks (for full-time) or 8 weeks (for part-time) to complete the course.

This course is intended for anyone in a technical role, whether in R&D, quality control, product development, process design/optimisation or innovation, working in a data-driven milk/food setting. It is suitable for young professionals, managers and team leaders, and other individuals who have a passion for the milk industry and wish to enhance their expertise and develop expert reputation in precision milk/food processing through predictive model development.

Designed to build Milk/Food Data Modelers of the future, the IODY’s Predicting Milk/Food Quality with Chemometrics course will help you to acquire the workplace skills that matter and provide you with a comprehensive knowledge of the following topics:

• Why chemometrics in the milk/food industry?
• Multivariate data analysis programming fundamentals
• Design of milk/food experiments
• Data Measurements and collection
• The science of Chemometrics
• Data preprocessing techniques
• Exploratory data analysis and chemometrics practices.
• Core chemometric classifications (One class and multiclass; Supervised and unsupervised)
• Fundamentals of quantitative modelling
• Real life application of chemometrics to milk/food industry data.
• Common mistakes in chemometric modelling and how to avoid them.
• Mini project – Chemometrics Practice

Please note that the module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.

• Meet Chemometrics and learn the science behind it from milk industry experts who have been there and done it.
• Explore the application possibilities of chemometrics in the milk industry to expand your knowledge and stay ahead of the game.
• Learn how to build algorithms from data to address consumer demands for safety and quality through predictive model building.
• Learn how to expand your sphere of influence and become a member of the Institute of Dairy to connect with peers.
• When you complete the course, you will be able to apply enhanced technical skills and work with pride to invent the future. The milk industry is booming, and the right jobs are waiting.

This course is intended only for professionally trained Dairy/Food Scientists with knowledge or experience working in the milk industry. However, anyone new to a technical role, whether transferring from different professions or having no prior knowledge of the milk industry, will be accepted provided they have completed the IODY’s Dairy technology for non-dairy/food technologists course before enrolment.

Course Admissions Requirements

Completion of a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study. Otherwise, the completion of the IODY’s Dairy technology for non-dairy/food technologists’ course is mandatory.

Completion of the pre-course assignment prior to the course.

Please note that if there are more applications for this course than places available, applicants will be ranked by date of application.

Earn a Certificate of Completion from The Institute of Dairy

Participation in the mini lab project qualifies you for a certificate of completion from the Institute of Dairy to recognise your knowledge.

Institute of Dairy reserves the right to cancel an upcoming training without further notice. All registrations will be refunded in full.
Cancellations will be refunded in full up to 14 days from date of registration. After this, no refunds will be given. However, a voucher, valid for one year, that is worth the equivalent of the original training may be issued to the participant in the extreme case that he can no longer participate in the training that he had initially registered for due to unforeseen circumstances.