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19-1012.00 — Food Scientists and Technologists

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Technology Skills
Analytical or scientific software
  • BioDiscovery ImaGene
  • Image analysis software
  • Insightful S-PLUS
  • MDS Analytical Technologies GenePix Pro
  • Sensory Computer Systems SIMS
  • STATISTICA
Business intelligence and data analysis software
  • Tableau
Customer relationship management CRM software
  • Oracle Eloqua
Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
  • PathogenTracker
  • Structured query language SQL
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA National Nutrient Database
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • SAP software
Object or component oriented development software
  • R
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Sales and marketing software
  • HubSpot software
  • Marketo Marketing Automation
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Web platform development software
  • Hypertext markup language HTML
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word
Tools Used
Air samplers or collectors
  • Air sampling systems
Amino acid analyzers
Anaerobic chamber
  • Anaerobic growth chambers
Analytical balances
Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
Autosamplers
Bench refractometers or polarimeters
  • Differential refractometers
Blanching machinery
  • Steam blanchers
Blast freezers
Calorimeters
  • Computerized calorimeters
Color sensors
  • Color difference meters
Colorimeters
Commercial use deep fryers
  • Batch fryers
Commercial use food choppers or cubers or dicers
  • Food choppers
Commercial use food grinders
  • Meat grinders
Commercial use food slicers
  • Food slicers
Commercial use griddles
  • Griddles
Commercial use grills
  • Grills
Commercial use microwave ovens
  • Commercial microwave ovens
Commercial use mixers
  • Food mixers
Commercial use ranges
  • Induction cooktops
  • Ranges
Commercial use steamers
  • Steam kettles
Conductivity meters
Cooking machinery
  • Jet cooking systems
  • Thermal processing equipment
Crushing machinery
  • Food crushers
  • Fruit presses
  • Pulper finishers
Cutting machinery
  • Meat saws
Darkfield microscopes
  • Phase contrast microscopes
Dehydrating machinery
  • Drum dryers
  • Food dehydrators
Dehydrators
  • Dehydration equipment
Desktop computers
Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 laboratory incubators
Electronic counters
  • Laser colony counters
Electrophoresis system accessories
  • Fraction collectors
Extracting equipment for laboratories
  • Extractors
Fat extractors
  • Specific gravity fat analyzers
Filling machinery
  • Piston filling machines
  • Stuffers
Flask or retort units
  • Retort sterilization equipment
Fluorescent microscopes
  • Epifluorescence microscopes
Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
  • Programmable incubators
Freeze dryers or lyopholizers
  • Freeze drying equipment
Gas chromatographs
  • Gas chromatographs GC
Gel documentation systems
  • Gel electrophoresis equipment
High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
Homogenizers
Ice cream machines
  • Ice cream freezers
Infrared spectrometers
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Infrared IR spectrometers
Ion chromatographs
Juicing machinery
  • Dejuicers
Kjeldahl nitrogen determination apparatus
  • Macro kjeldahls
  • Micro kjeldahls
Laboratory balances
  • Electronic laboratory balances
Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
  • Emulsifiers
  • Pulsifiers
Laboratory box furnaces
  • Muffle furnaces
Laboratory diluters
  • Automatic diluters
Laboratory heat exchange condensers
  • Heat exchangers
  • Plate heat exchangers
  • Tubular heat exchangers
Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
  • Laboratory ovens
Laboratory membrane filters
  • Membrane filtration systems
Laboratory mills
Lasers
  • Laboratory lasers
Light scattering equipment
  • Dynamic light scattering equipment
Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters
  • Coulter counters
Mass spectrometers
Melting point recorders
  • Melting point apparatus
Microbiological aircontrol equipment
  • Microbial monitoring systems
Microbiology analyzers
  • Bacterial identification systems
  • Spiral platers
Microcentrifuges
Microplate readers
  • Scanning plate readers
Nephelometers
  • Benchtop nephelometers
Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer
  • Nitrogen analyzers
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Orbital shaking water baths
Oscilloscopes
  • Digital oscilloscopes
Oxygen gas analyzers
  • Oxygen analyzers
Packaging vacuum
  • Vacuum packagers
Personal computers
pH meters
  • pH indicators
Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
  • High speed refrigerated centrifuges
Rheometers
Roasting machinery
  • Roasting equipment
Scanning electron microscopes
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
Solution strength estimation apparatus
  • Torsion gelometers
Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
  • Spectrofluorimeters
  • Ultraviolet UV spectrometers
Spectrometers
  • Reflectance spectrometers
Standard fermentation units
  • Fermenting tanks
Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
  • Steam autoclaves
Sterilization cabinets
  • Biological safety cabinets
Stomachers
Strain gauges
  • Strain testers
Sugar analyzers
  • Glucose analyzers
Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
  • Thermal cyclers
Thermal differential analyzers
  • Dynamic mechanical analyzers DMA
Thermo gravimetry analyzers
  • Thermal gravimetric analyzers
Tissue culture incubators
  • Bioreactors
Vacuum or rotary evaporators
  • Rotary evaporators
Viscosimeters
  • Amylographs
  • Viscometers
Water analysis systems
  • Water activity meters
Water baths
  • Laboratory water baths
X ray diffraction equipment
  • X ray crystallography equipment
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