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Background Papers


The Background Papers' sections:

- EuroFIR Technical Papers
- Food Composition Databases in General
- Food Composition Database Management and Data Interchange
- Food Composition Data Quality
- LanguaL Food Description
- Food Classification
- BASIS -NETTOX
- Presentations


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 EuroFIR Technical Papers
   
 2006-08-19 EuroFIR Databank System Specifications version - Draft Report 2006-06-01.
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 2006-08-19 EuroFIR XML Food Data Transport Package Specifications - Draft Report 2006-08-20.
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 Food Composition Databases in general
   
 2005-02-16 Schlotke, F. and Møller, A.:
Inventory of European food composition databases and tables.
Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Data Management and Interchange.
Report No. EUR 19539, European Commission, 2000.
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 2005-02-16 Simonopoulos, A.P. and Butrum, R.R. (Editors):
International Food Data Bases and Information Exchange.
Concepts, Principles and Designs.
World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics vol. 68, Karger AG, Basel, 1992

 

 Food Composition Database Management and Data Interchange
   
 2006-05-31 Vignat J., Unwin I., Ireland J., Møller A., Becker W., Charrondière U.R., Skeie G., and Slimani N.:
Guideline notes for preparing and exporting food composition data according to the common formats of export files. Version prepared for EuroFIR. Version date: 15 September 2003.
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 2005-02-16 Schlotke F., Becker W., Ireland J., Møller A., Ovaskainen M.L., Monspart J., Unwin I.:
Recommendations for Food Composition Database Management and Interchange.
Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Data Management and Interchange.
Report No. EUR 19538, European Commission, 2000.
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 2005-02-16 Schlotke F., Becker W., Ireland J., Møller A., Ovaskainen M.L., Monspart J., Unwin I.:
Eurofoods Recommendations for Food Composition Database Management and Interchange.
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2000, 13, 709-744
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 2008-06-16 Becker, W. and Unwin, I.:

The Component Aspect Identifier - A Tool for Handling Food Component Information in a Food Database Management System. Re-publising of report nr 9/1995, Livsmedelsverket, Uppsala, Sweden.
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 2002-02-17 Unwin, I.D., Møller, A.:
Data Interchange Formats as Import/Export Formats for Food Database Management Systems.
Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Søborg, Denmark, 1996
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 2005-02-16 Schlotke, F.:
Using internet services to improve international food data exchange.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Food Data Base Conference, Lahti, Finland, 1995.
 
 2005-05-16 Soergel et al:
A network model for improving access to food and nutrition data
1992
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 2005-02-16 Pennington, J.A.T. and Hendricks, T.C.
Proposal for an international interface standard for food databases.
Food Additives and Contaminants, 1992, vol. 9, no. 3, 265-275.

 
 2005-02-16 US Food and Drug Administration:
International Interface Standard for Food Databases
Copy of overhead presentation of software
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 Food Composition Data Quality
   
 2007-02-07 Holman, P.C.H. and Katan, M.B.:

Report of the Eurofoods Interlaboratory trial 1985 on laboratory procedures as a source of discrepansies between food tables. Report 85.67 - Pr.nr. 404.0070, 1985  (2 MB)
 

 

 LanguaL
   
2007-02-07 LanguaL 2007 Thesaurus (6 MB)
 
2007-02-07 LanguaL 2007 - Documentation of changes from version 2000
 
2007-02-07 LanguaL 2007 Multilingual Thesaurus
 
2005-02-16 Møller A., Ireland J.:
LanguaL 2000 – The LanguaL thesaurus.
Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature.
Report No. EUR 19540, European Commission, 2000.
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 2005-02-16 Møller A., Ireland J.:
LanguaL 2000 – Introduction to the LanguaL thesaurus.
Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature.
Report No. EUR 19542, European Commission, 2000.
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2005-02-16 Møller A., Ireland J.:
LanguaL 2000 - Documentation of changes from Version 0.
Report by the COST Action 99 – Eurofoods Working Group on Food Description, Terminology and Nomenclature.
Report No. EUR 19541, European Commission, 2000.
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 2005-02-16 Ireland J., Møller A.:
Review of international food classification and description.
J. Food Comp. Anal., 13 (4), 529-538, 2000.
 
 2005-02-16 Schlotke:
LanguaL - Harmonization of different national versions
1996
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 2005-02-16 Favier J-C, Ireland-Ripert J., Feinberg M.
Derivés du manioc, banques de données et système international de codification descriptive LanguaL, in Agbor Egbe T. et al.(eds), Transformation alimentaire du manioc, Editions ORSTOM, Collection Colloques et séminaires, Paris (1995).
 
 2005-02-16 Favier J-C, Ireland-Ripert J., Mourel R-M., Feinberg M.
Description de la typicité des vins et boissons alcoolisées par le système international de codification Langual; Science des Aliments (1994) 14, 617-625.
 
 2005-02-16 Kaluzny-Pinon L.
Eurofoods-Enfant project: La codification descriptive des aliments. Process, 1994, 56, N°1091.
 
 2005-02-16 Report of LanguaL Coding Experiment. FLAIR Concerted Action Programme N°12: Eurofoods-Enfant Project "Improvement of the Quality and Compatibility of Food Consumption and Food Composition Data in Europe ", April 1993.
 
 2005-02-16 Hendricks T.C.
LanguaL: An Automated Method for Describing, Capturing and Retrieving Data about Foods. In Simopoulos A.P., Butrum R.R. (eds), International Food Data Bases and Information Exchange, World Rev. Nutr. Diet. Basel, Karger, 1992, vol 68, pp 94-103.
 
 2005-02-16 Pennington, J.A.T. and Butrum, R.R.
Food description - Langual and Taxonomy.
Trends in Food Science and Technology, 1991, 2, 285-288.
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 2005-02-16 Feinberg M., Ireland-Ripert J,. Favier J-C.
LANGUAL: un langage international pour la description structurée des aliments; Science des Aliments, 1991, 11, 193-214.
 
 2005-02-16 McCann A., Pennington J.A., Smith E.C., Holden J.M., Soergel D., Wiley R.C.
FDA’s Factored Food Vocabulary for Food Product Description, J. Am. Dietetic Assoc., 1988, 3, 336-341.
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 Eurocode 2
   
 2005-02-16 Unwin, I.D. and Møller, A.:
EUROCODE 2 Position Paper on the Eurocode 2 Coding System.
In prep.
 
 2005-02-17 Unwin, I.D. and Møller, A.:
Eurocode 2 Review and Modified Core Classification.
Danish veterinary and Food Administration, 1998.
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 2002-02-17 Portvliet, E. and Kohlmeier, L.:
Manual for Using the Eurocode 2 Food Coding System (Draft 1993).
Eurofoods-Enfant, March 1993
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 BASIS - NETTOX
   
 2005-02-17 Møller, A., Rhodes, M, Walker, A., Atkins, D., Bailey, G, van Klaveren, J., Vittozzi, L.:
NETTOX Proposal for the Structure and Organsation of a Future European Database.
NETTOX EU Concerted Action CT 94 2185, Report No. 3 (of 9)
Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Søborg, Denmark, 1998.
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 Latest News
EuroFIR thesauri version 1.0 published

2008-08-25
The EuroFIR thesauri version 1.0 has been published. See the EuroFIR thesauri pages.
 
New version of EuroFIR XML Food Data Transport Package

2008-08-25
Version 1.3 of the EuroFIR XML Food Data Transport Package.
See the System Development pages.
 
LanguaL 2008 lauched

2008-08-25
The new version of LanguaL 2008 has been published.
Find more information on the pages on LanguaL and FPI.
 
Success for the CEN project!!!

2008-08-06
The application for a CEN project on a Standard for Food Composition Data was submitted in April and has been accepted!
Please read this.
 
EuroFIR FoodComp 2008

2008-04-02
The EuroFIR Course on Production and Use of Food Composition Data in Nutrition, 6-17 October 2008, Bratislava, Slovakia.
More information and application form here.
 
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