Establishing quality management systems for European food composition databases

Food Chemistry

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 776-780

  Castanheira, Isabel ^a   Roe, Mark ^b   Westenbrink, Susanne ^c   Ireland, Jayne ^d   Møller, Anders ^e   Salvini, Simonetta ^f   Beernaert, Hedwig ^g   Oseredczuk, Marine ^c   Calhau, Maria Antónia ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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

^d French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA)   (France)

^e Danish Food Information (DFI)   (Denmark)

^f CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^g SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data quality; EuroFIR; Food composition database; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EUROPE; FOOD COMPOSITION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56149097091     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.05.091     Document Type: Article

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