The importance of harmonizing food composition data across Europe

To examine the role of food composition data in Europe in four sectors, namely health, trade regulation and legislation, agriculture and the environment. The need for further harmonization of data across Europe is clearly identified and evidenced from a number of previous successful European collabo...

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Published inEuropean journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 61; no. 7; pp. 813 - 821
Main Authors EGAN, M. B, FRAGODT, A, RAATS, M. M, HODGKINS, C, LUMBERS, M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke Nature Publishing 01.07.2007
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects
Agriculture
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical nutrition
Composition
Consumer Product Safety
Descriptive labeling
Environmental legislation
Europe
Food
Food - classification
Food - standards
Food Analysis - standards
Food composition
Food industry
Food Industry - standards
Food products
Government policy
Health Policy
Humans
Industrial development
Information resources
Legislation
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Nutrition
Nutrition Policy
Nutrition research
Public Health
Public policy
Europe
Human
Composition
Health policy
Nutrition
Europe
food composition
nutrition policy
Data
Public health
Food
Feeding
Harmonization
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Summary:To examine the role of food composition data in Europe in four sectors, namely health, trade regulation and legislation, agriculture and the environment. The need for further harmonization of data across Europe is clearly identified and evidenced from a number of previous successful European collaborations. Data on the nutritional composition of foods are essential for a broad spectrum of activities, including public health nutrition, research, the food industry and government policy development and implementation. With the expansion of the European Union and the concomitant increase in cross border trade and cooperation harmonizing food composition data becomes a more important issue than ever. Harmonization is not solely a technical issue, but also involves creating durable and sustainable structures to maintain the viability of the data. These are some of the issues currently being addressed by the European Food Information Resource Network of Excellence.
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ISSN:0954-3007
1476-5640
DOI:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602823