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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.
Newer version available, see Systems Development
 
 2006-08-19 EuroFIR XML Food Data Transport Package Specifications - Draft Report 2006-08-20.
Newer version available, see Systems Development

 

 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.


 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
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Vol. 92, No. 1, 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.

 

 

 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
   
  For a full list of LanguaL reports and papers, see the LanguaL Literature page or the EuroFIR Food Description pages.
   

 

 Eurocode 2
   
 2007-02-09 Unwin, I.D. and Møller, A.:
EUROCODE 2 Position Paper on the Eurocode 2 Coding System.
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 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
LanguaL FPI 3.91 available

2009-09-24
An updated version of the LanguaL Food Product Indexer, version 3.91, is available.
See LanguaL pages.
 
8th International Food Data Conference

2009-03-24
The 8th International Food Data Conference is organised by organised by the Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University (INMU). The conference takes place from 1st - 3rd October 2009.
More information.
 
3rd International EuroFIR Congress

2009-01-21
European Food Composition Data for Better Diet, Nutrition and Food Quality.
EuroFIR held its third international congress at the Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, on the 8-10th September 2009.
More information..
 
Announcing FoodComp 2009

2009-01-14
The 9th International Graduate Course on the Production and Use of Food Composition Data in Nutrition to be held in Wageningen, Holland, 11-24 October 2009. For more information, see brochure.
 
EuroFIR thesauri version 1.0 published

2008-08-25
The EuroFIR thesauri version 1.0 has been published. See the EuroFIR thesauri pages.
 
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