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Standards
The evidence behind the public promise
The Good Taste Awards standards define what the award assesses, who may participate, how products and samples are controlled, how responses become candidates, what professionals may confirm, what the stars mean, and how results can be claimed and reviewed.
The website explains those subjects in ordinary language. The controlled standards govern where interpretation is required.
Read the award scope and core method to understand integrated sensory pleasure, Overall Liking, the Target Population and the excluded non-sensory constructs.
Read the assessor and panel requirements for consumer-side qualification, professional qualification, strict majority, conflicts, temporary fitness and role separation.
Read the taste-assessment standard, rating schedule and decision schedule for the path from independent response to published result.
Read the product-entry standard, classification schedule, sample-quantity schedule and preparation schedule. Use the category guides for placement and tasting context.
Read the result and claims standard, star-meaning schedule and award-mark schedule for comments, ordinary statements, comparisons, reviews and mark use.
Read the integrity standard, data specifications and review protocol for records, access, audit, correction and oversight.
The programme mandate, methodological basis, core method, validation protocol and system audit protocol.
Authority, drafting, document control, approval, language and public identity rules.
Public requirements governing scope, assessment, samples, assessors, results and integrity.
Controlled scales, decision rules, classification, sample quantity, preparation, panel composition, star meanings and mark use.
Category-specific preparation and presentation requirements.
Repeatable procedures and the forms used to record required evidence. Public documents and authorized public extracts are clearly distinguished.
Definitions for decisions, public results, document publication and record integrity.
Official non-normative guidance for placement, preparation, tasting and description. Guides support the standards but do not alter the star method.
The document library shows the active version of each public document. A fixed-version link preserves the exact text used for citation and audit.
A later active version does not overwrite an earlier fixed version. Status and replacement relationships remain visible.
Open standards make the method and result meaning verifiable. Private assessor data, individual responses, restricted restricted instructions, unpublished results and controlled review evidence remain access restricted.
Transparency does not require exposing personal or confidential evidence. It requires that the public claim can be traced to an authorized method and result.
English is the sole authoritative language of the standards system. Any translated representation identifies its status and links back to the authoritative English source.
Use the topic pathways if you have a question. Use the document library if you know the document family or identifier. Use the glossary if a controlled term needs explanation.
