The EuroFIR Food Platform: Further integration, refinement and exploitation for its long-term self-sustainability

The aim of this report is to present the conceptual specifications for the interface between two existing web-infrastructures, the e-Standardized Methodologies Platform (e-SMP) – still under development – and the EuroFIR Food Composition Data (FCD) interchange platform(1). The conceptual development of a tool filling the current missing link between the collected dietary intake data handled in the e-SMP and the food concentration/composition data available via the EuroFIR portal has to be seen as a major step forward towards more comprehensive infrastructures to strengthen the comparability and integration of food consumption and composition data underpinning dietary assessment for national and international nutritional studies in Europe.   Key words TBC   To read the full text of the publication click here.