ISO 8586-2:2008规定了从选定的评估人员或产品、工艺或营销专家中选择具有特定感官技能的人员的标准，这些人员本身符合ISO 8586-1规定的选择标准。它规定了选择它们的原则和程序，并将它们的知识和能力扩展到专家感官评估师所需的水平。 ISO 8586-2:2008规定了专家感官评估员通过使用描述符建立产品和材料感官轮廓的要求。专家感官评估师对产品或材料的具体知识不是满足这些要求所必需的。 ISO 8586-2:2008补充了ISO 6658中给出的信息。

ISO 8586-2:2008 specifies criteria for choosing people with particular sensory skills from selected assessors or from product, process or marketing specialists who themselves satisfy the selection criteria specified in ISO 8586-1. It specifies principles and procedures for choosing them and expanding their knowledge and abilities to the levels required of expert sensory assessors. ISO 8586-2:2008 sets out requirements for expert sensory assessors to establish sensory profiles of products and materials through the use of descriptors. Specific knowledge of products or materials by expert sensory assessors is not necessary to fulfil these requirements. ISO 8586-2:2008 supplements the information given in ISO 6658.