Food composition databases: The EuroFIR approach to develop tools to assure the quality of the data compilation process

Food Chemistry

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 759-767

  Westenbrink, Susanne ^a   Oseredczuk, Marine ^b   Castanheira, Isabel ^c   Roe, Mark ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compilation process; Critical control points; Data quality; Food composition databases; Quality framework; Standard operating procedures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FOOD COMPOSITION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 55949111929     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.05.112     Document Type: Article

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