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Originally Posted by flatbutt

I was a gas chromatography tech doing incoming analysis on the oils. The company used them in a range of products from flavoring to air fresheners. Later on, after I gained some proficiency I got into development support. There I did analyses supporting our focus groups research. My first big project was to take a peppermint essential oil and assay a series of oils each with a reduced number of components in order to to create one that tasted the same but was much cheaper to produce.

Very cool, thanks.