Cost Action 99
European project on Food Consumption and Food Composition
Data
The EU COST Action 99 – EUROFOODS “Food Consumption and Food
Composition Data” was a research project sponsored by COST
(European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical
Research). It started in 1995 and ended in 1999. Within this
framework a special working group addresses issues of food
composition data management and interchange. The main objective
of this working group was to promote and encourage interchange
of food composition data within Europe.
To achieve this goal, the working group proposes a set of
recommendations for food composition data interchange using
electronic media. The recommendations are described in
Schlotke F., Becker W., Ireland J., Møller A., Ovaskainen M.L.,
Monspart J., Unwin I. (Eds.):
COST Action 99 - Eurofoods recommendations for food composition database
management and data interchange
Report No. EUR 19538, Luxembourg: Office for Official
Publications of the European Communities, 2000 (79 pp.), ISBN
92-828-9757-5 (pdf, 12 MB).
The recommendations are firmly founded on previous work done
internationally by INFOODS and by national agencies and
institutes as well as international standards. The
recommendations include the description of food, component,
value and data source. The intention has been to create a food
composition data interchange model that is sufficiently generic
to handle food composition data at the various levels of
aggregation and with various levels of additional descriptive
information. The recommendations also include technical issues
such as file formats. Recent developments of software tools to
support the recommendations are briefly described.
During the COST Action 99 project an inventory of the food
composition tables and databases in Europe was carried out. The
results are presented in the report
Schlotke, F. and Møller, A. (Eds.):
Inventory of European Food Composition Databases and Tables
Report No. EUR 19539, Luxembourg: Office for Official
Publications of the European Communities, 2000 (79 pp.), ISBN
92-828-9761-3 (pdf, 300 kB).
The PDF-versions of the COST Action 99 reports are presented
here with permission from the COST Secretariat, Brussels and we
acknowledge the copyright of the European Commission and the
intellectual property rights of the authors. The publications
are also available in printed form from the
Office for Official Publications of The European
Communities, L-2985 Luxembourg.
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