Building a unified Spanish food database according to EuroFIR specifications

The existence of reliable data on the composition of foods is critical for a variety of purposes. There is a growing requirement for food composition data to be compatible at international level through computerised databases and nutritional analysis software. The work on data harmonisation and its...

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Published inFood chemistry Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 784 - 788
Main Authors Martínez Burgos, M.A., Martínez-Victoria, I., Milá, R., Farrán, A., Farré, R., Ros, G., Yago, M.D., Audi, N., Santana, C., López Millán, M.B., Ramos López, S., Mañas, M., Martínez-Victoria, E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2009
[Amsterdam]: Elsevier Science
Subjects
Classification
Compilation
consumer protection
data collection
Description
epidemiological studies
European Food Information Resource Network of Excellence (EuroFIR)
food composition
Food composition database
food law
foods
Internet resource
labeling
LanguaL food description thesaurus
LanguaL Thesaurus
Multilingual system
nutrient content
nutrient databanks
nutrition education
nutrition information
nutritive value
qualitative analysis
quality control
thesauri
Unification
Spain
Compilation
Description
Food composition database
LanguaL Thesaurus
Unification
Classification
Multilingual system
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Summary:The existence of reliable data on the composition of foods is critical for a variety of purposes. There is a growing requirement for food composition data to be compatible at international level through computerised databases and nutritional analysis software. The work on data harmonisation and its application in European food composition databases (FCDBs) is being undertaken by the European food information resource network of excellence (EuroFIR) project. Spanish EuroFIR partners have set up a working group (BDECA) to create a unified FCDB. In the first stage, BDECA has made possible the compilation of food’s data obtained from different Spanish food composition tables. The foods incorporated in this table constitute the information necessary for the generation of the database as the second objective. The classification and description of all foods included in our database had been carried out previously using the multilingual system through facetted classification LanguaL Thesaurus.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.10.024
ISSN:0308-8146
1873-7072
DOI:10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.10.024