Assessing and improving the quality of food composition databases for nutrition and health applications in Europe: The contribution of EuroFIR

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 608S-614S

  Finglas, Paul M ^a,b   Berry, Rachel ^a   Astley, Siân ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b European Food Information Resource (EuroFIR) Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif (AISBL)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD QUALITY; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 84910116204     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.113.005470     Document Type: Article

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