You Know You're a Quality Assurance - Food Scientist When....

This is a series of posts in which I share snippets of what it's like to be a food scientist. As a product developer for dry powder shakes, there are some lessons I never learned in school and some challenges I never saw coming. 

You know you're a food scientist in quality assurance when...

THIS makes you slap you head

"SHOULD BE absent?" Okay, but IS IT? Note the asterisks

 

THIS makes you smile

 

They answered all my favorite questions!

THIS makes you nervous

 

When you've seen too many recalls and know too much about certain food, like sprouts

THIS makes you roll your eyes

 

·         Add to the picture above, any time a scientist is wearing goggles but not gloves; any scientist in the movies or TV shows who takes off their gloves with their mouth, any time a scientist mouth-pipettes...and so on. This is why I love the sites http://thatsnothowyoupipette.tumblr.com/ and PHD Comics

 

THIS makes you sigh with frustration

....and finally....THIS is your mantra

http://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2014/05/01/formaldehyde-chemophobia-ewg-and-the-most-important-thing-to-know-about-toxic-stuff/

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