1 Purpose
This document sets the defined parameters and decision conditions for Assessor Eligibility and Panel Composition Schedule for Good Taste Awards.
2 Scope
This document applies to the requirements, decisions, records, controls, and outputs expressly identified under Assessor Eligibility and Panel Composition Schedule. Award scope and exclusions are defined by GTA-STD-100; this document shall not create an additional award dimension. Operational prerequisites identified here affect assessment validity and never constitute product certification.
3 Authority and interpretation
The Assessment Operations Lead owns GTA-SCH-401; the Standards Authority approves it. formal verbs, defined terms, stable requirement identities, policy constants, and generated representations shall be interpreted under GTA-GOV-002, GTA-GOV-005, and the defined registers.
3.1 Registered relationships
| Relationship | Direction | Related document |
|---|---|---|
implements | outbound | GTA-STD-400 |
implements | inbound | GTA-OPS-106 |
governed_by | outbound | GTA-GOV-001 |
drafted_under | outbound | GTA-GOV-002 |
4 Requirements
GTA-SCH-401-R001 — Potential-consumer eligibility
The Assessment Operations Lead shall require realistic category consumption possibility, task understanding, integrity, and relevant restrictions.
GTA-SCH-401-R002 — Food-enthusiast eligibility
The Assessment Operations Lead shall add demonstrated descriptive ability and disciplined interest without converting the role into professional status.
GTA-SCH-401-R003 — Professional eligibility
The Assessment Operations Lead shall require relevant verifiable experience and defined sensory and confirmation qualification.
GTA-SCH-401-R004 — Panel Lead eligibility
The Assessment Operations Lead shall require neutral facilitation, minority inclusion, comment discipline, and escalation competence.
GTA-SCH-401-R005 — Conflict states
The Assessment Operations Lead shall define clear, review, exclude, and post-lock incident outcomes.
GTA-SCH-401-R006 — Fitness states
The Assessment Operations Lead shall define fit, temporarily not assigned, restricted, and withdrawn participation states.
GTA-SCH-401-R007 — Composition formula
The Assessment Operations Lead shall calculate strict consumer majority as half the valid panel with any fraction discarded plus one.
GTA-SCH-401-R008 — Decision-point minima
The Assessment Operations Lead shall apply the defined consumer-side and professional minima at every decision point.
GTA-SCH-401-R009 — Replacement
The Assessment Operations Lead shall restore both valid count and composition without prior-result disclosure.
GTA-SCH-401-R010 — Monitoring
The Assessment Operations Lead shall define conduct, completion, calibration-of-use, and review indicators without opinion conformity.
5 Panel composition
| Stage | Valid responses | Consumer-side minimum | Professional minimum | Maximum professionals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| First progressed | 12 | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| Extended | 16 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
| Final | 24 | 13 | 6 | 11 |
Consumer-side assessors include screened potential consumers and screened food enthusiasts. A person qualified as both a potential consumer and a professional shall nevertheless occupy one composition track for one product. No person may contribute more than one Overall Liking response to one product decision route.
Panel Lead is an operational role and not a composition track. A Panel Lead response is valid only where the individual is separately eligible, conflict-cleared, assigned to exactly one composition track before service, and completion-locked before facilitation begins. The Panel Lead shall not prepare or serve that product, control its blind identity, authorize its result, or independently review the same evidence. Category-professional status is recorded as qualification scope under the professional-assessor track.
6 Target-population classification
| Control | Registered value |
|---|---|
| Permitted classes | broad_potential_consumers, category_relevant_consumers, specialized_use_consumers |
| Required definition fields | product_category, consumption_possibility, familiarity_requirement_or_permitted_unfamiliarity, use_context, material_participation_restrictions, interpretation_boundary |
| Prohibited selection bases | desired_score, entrant_preference, brand_loyalty, commercial_importance, professional_status_alone |
| Inference limit | defined_small_panel_not_population_representative |
Target-population criteria shall identify consumption possibility, category relevance, required familiarity or permitted unfamiliarity, material restrictions, and any specialized use context. Small-panel findings shall not be described as population-representative estimates.
7 Conformity and records
Conformity with Assessor Eligibility and Panel Composition Schedule requires evidence comprising the source evidence, defined decision, accountable role, and independent or automated verification. The record for each applicable GTA-SCH-401 requirement shall permit reconstruction without relying on an unrecorded explanation.
Evidence created under GTA-SCH-401 shall use stable identifiers, immutable event sequence numbers, and machine event timestamps. A correction shall be append-only. A nonconformity shall place the affected object in a non-releasable state until its consequence and confirmed disposition are recorded. Role combination remains subject to the mandatory separation rules.