Tea Board Asked To Make Quality-Checking Instrument Available To Industry

Coimbatore: The United Planters Association of Southern India (Upasi) has asked the Tea Board and the National Tea Research Foundation (NTRF) to make the tea quality monitoring instrument `E-nose' available to the industry at the earliest. The association, which was contemplating to import the electronic tongue to objectively measure the quality parameters of tea, is convinced that the electronic nose developed indigenously by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) would be a boon to tea factories. An odour stimulus would generate a characteristic fingerprint from the array of sensors. Patterns or fingerprints from known odours could be easily identified and classified as the system is capable of sensing volatile tea compounds and predicting scores with a high degree of accuracy.Having made some headway on the electronic nose, Upasi is sure that CDAC would be able to develop the electronic tongue as well.