Standardisation of an European end-user nutrient database for nutritional epidemiology: what can we learn from the EPIC Nutrient Database (ENDB) Project?

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 407-419

  Slimani, N ^a   Deharveng, G ^a   Unwin, I ^b   Vignat, J ^a   Skeie, G ^c   Salvini, S ^d   Moller A ^e   Ireland, J ^f   Becker, W ^g   Southgate, D A T ^h  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b Food Information Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^g NATIONAL FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

^h NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARDIZATION;

EPIC NUTRIENT DATABASE (ENDB); NUTRIENT DATABASES (NDBS); NUTRITIONAL STUDIES; USER RECOMMENDATIONS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34347358673     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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