General Meeting Documents
 

Agenda (revised 2008-03-14)

List of Attendees (revised 2008-03-14)

The following presentations were given at the Compiler Network meeting
 

EuroFIR 2 Update and Sustainability

 • EuroFIR AISBL - Plan of Action (Paul Finglas)

 • Current licensing arrangements for food composition datasets - future developments (Lois Woestman)

 • Presentation of Seca case as potential model for future intra-EuroFIR income streams (Paul Finglas)

EuroFIR Updates I

 • EuroFIR Standard (Irene Mattisson, NFA)

 • Food indexing – EuroFIR classification testing (Jayne Ireland, AFSSA)

 • Status of work, Technical annex and XML, and the Technical website and its data (Anders Møller, DFI)

 • Value Documentation (Anders Møller, DFI)
 

EuroFIR Updates II

 • Bibliographic reference repository (Ian Unwin, IDUFIC)   -  CiteXplore examples

 • Usability testing (Anja Fragodt, US)

 • Recipe calculation – yield and retention factors (Ana Vasquez, BfEL)

Industry Data

 • Introduction (Claudia Krines, TTZ)

 • Industrial foods: Collecting data from food industry – approaches and pitfalls (Susanne Westenbrink, NEVO)

 • German Nutrient Database (BLS) Cooperation Platform (Ana Vasquez, BfEL)

 • Managing industry data (Carine Seeuws, Nubel)

 • Evaluating industry data (Jayne Ireland, AFSSA)

 • Can we trust industry data? (Anders Møller, DFI)
 

Draft Guidelines for analytical methods

 • Guidelines for evaluating analytical methods (Isabel Castanheira, INSA)
 

Standard operation procedures for the compilation process

 • Quality management, SOP writing and EuroFIR SOPs (Gaida Lapitajs, IRMM, and Susanne Westenbrink, RIVM)

 • Progress on EuroFIR SOPs and their continuation in EuroFIR (Susanne Westenbrink, RIVM)

Presentation of SOPs

 • SOP3 (Paolo Colombani, ETHZ)

 • SOP13 (Mark Roe, IFR)

 • SOP14 (Janka Porubska, FRI)

 • Review of SOPs (Irene Mattisson, NFA)
 

Value documentation Assessment

 • Validation study of the USDA's data quality evaluation system (Joanne Holden, USDA)
 

Value Documentation training

 • Introduction (Mark Roe, IFR)

 • Guidelines for value documentation and data quality assessment (Simonetta Salvini, CSPO, and Mark Roe, IFR)

The following documents was referred to during the meeting

Folate Inventory & Compilation Guidelines - Action Plan (by Paul Finglas)

Document on niacin equivalent calculations in the Nordic countries (by Irene Mattisson)

EuroFIR Standard Description (2007-07-13) and Technical Annex (2007-11-06) (by Anders Møller)

EuroFIR XML Food Data Transport Package (version 1.1, 2007-11-30) (by Anders Møller)

Draft Proposal:  Methodological Concepts and Support for the Establishment and Testing of Nutrient Profiles (by Claudia Krines)

Danish Veterinary and Food Administration  -  Næringsdelarationer og tolerancer ("Nutrition Labelling and Tolerances" in Danish with English summary) (by Anders Møller)

The Introduction of Mandatory Nutrition Labelling in the European Union  -  Impact Assessment Undertaken for DG SANCO, European Commission (by Anders Møller)

EuroFIR Guidelines for Assessment of Methods of Analysis (by Isabel Castanheira)

List of Official Methods of Analysis For Prioritized Nutrients (Isabel Castanheira)

Background Documents

EuroFIR Workpackage 1.3, Task group 4  -  Guidelines for quality index attribution to original data from scientific literature or reports for EuroFIR data interchange (version 2008-03-13, new version!!!)

Report on test value documentation by compilers using prototype standard (TG1, Deliverable 1.8.6)

Demirezen & Uruc  -  Comparative study of trace elements in certain fish, meat and meat products

Schwartz et al  -  Tocopherol, tocotrienol and plant sterol contents of vegetable oils and industrial fats

Skonberg & Perkins  -  Nutrient composition of green crab (Carcinus maenus) leg meat and claw meat

Sirot et al  -  Lipid and fatty acid composition of fish and seafood consumed in France: CALIPSO study

Erkan & Özden  -  Proximate composition and mineral contents in aqua cultured sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), sea bream (Sparus aurata) analyzed by ICP-MS

Thomson et al  -  Brazil nuts: an effective way to improve selenium status