00000	EuroFIR Acquisition Type Thesaurus	This term is for CLASSIFICATION ONLY; DO NOT USE term in indexing. Use a more precise narrower term.	1.0
A	Authoritative Document	Use for documents published by legal authorities, standards organisations, committees, patent offices, etc.<br>	Moved from Reference Type Thesaurus.<br>
C	Scientific communication	Use for published articles, reports, posters, letters, etc. not known to be peer reviewed.<br>	
D	Independent laboratory	Laboratory report/protocol of a third party laboratory not affiliated with the food producer or the data compiler.<br>	Changed from &quot;Laboratory report/protocol of a third party laboratory not directly affiliated with the food producer or the organisation that initiated the investigation and now reports the data.&quot;<br>
E	Other acquisition type	Other Acquisition Type not defined in this thesaurus.  Use of this term should be avoided, if used only with great caution. See also Additional Information.<br>	E = else. <br>Except for its use specified in a EuroFIR thesaurus or guidelines, please inform the maintainer of this thesaurus of the circumstances requiring the use of E in case a new Acquisition Type should be defined.
F	Food composition table	Compiled food composition table(s), database(s) or dataset(s) under the responsibility of a compiler.	
I	Industry laboratory	Laboratory report/protocol of a food producer or distributor.<br>	
L	Food label, product information	Use for food label or product information provided by the producer or distributor with no further information about the data sources.<br>	
O	In-house or affiliated laboratory	In-house or affiliated laboratory report/protocol. Study design, sampling, and analysis are under direct control of the person or organisation compiling the food composition data.<br>	O = own data.<br>This Acquisition Type changes, normally to &#39;F&#39;, when a dataset from a food composition table is interchanged.<br>
P	Published and peer reviewed scientific paper	Use for a peer reviewed scientific study, published in a journal or book.<br>	
S	Value created within host-system	To be used for values created by a compiler within his or her FCDBMS using calculation or estimation. Note: simple unit conversion does not fall into this category.	This Acquisition Type changes, normally to &#39;F&#39;, when a dataset from a food composition table is interchanged.<br>
X	Acquisition type not known	Use this descriptor if the Acquisition Type for the given value or publication is not known.<br>