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Anders MøllerDanish Food Information, Denmark
Jayne IrelandAFSSA/DERNS/CIQUAL, France
on behalf of the EuroFIR Consortium
The EUROFIR ProjectLinking European Food Composition
Databases Using The LanguaL Food Description Thesaurus
U.S. National Nutrient Databank Conference, Washington D.C. April 2007
EuroFIREuropean Food Information Resource
Consortium:46 centres from 25 countries including:
27 database compilers 5 SMEs (15% budget)
Other stakeholders: WHO, FAO, CIAA, BEUC, EFSA & food industry (SMEs)Additional collaborating centres from USA, South Africa, Cana-da, Australia, New Zealand & Brazil
Funded by theEuropean Commission
The EuroFIR Network and its main objective
Delivering a comprehensive, coherent and validated databank for nutrients & bioactive compounds
DK
SEFI
DEDE
CZ
FR
BE
NL
PT
SP
GL
ITSP
FOIS
USA
European Food Composition InformationEuropean Food Composition on the Internet
BE
GR
GR
CY
LVEE
TR
PL
LT
EI
MA
RO
DZ TN
AU
SK
BAHR
SI
AL
UA
BU
BY
MD
MD
GECS
HU
RU
Online Databases
Static information(data in table format)
Offline Information(publications)
Information pending
Image © 2005 EarthSatApril 2007
Other onlinedatabases
JP
IS
FRFR
CD
IL
US
AUUS
USUS
Specialized datasets
EuroFIR BASIS
CH
SESE
DK
IT
Databases underimplementation
UK
NO
The Creation of Common EuroFIR Thesauri
Common description of foods and values in European food composition databases
Food DescriptionCommon indexing of foods
Value DocumentationCommon component definitions (with cross-reference to ChEBI, CAS, INFOODS, legal definitions, etc)Common analytical method descriptionCommon bibliographic database (CitExplore)
In additionCommon XML template for data transfer(The EuroFIR Food Data Transfer Package)
LanguaL Food Product Indexer
European LanguaL food indexing
EuroFIR datasets # FoodsBelgium_NUBEL (2006-03-31) 945Bulgaria_ NCH (2006-06-30) 727Denmark_DFVF (2006) 1 461Finland_FINELI (2006) 1 530France_AFSSA (2006-10-01) 1 035Germany_BFEL_BLS (2006-08-03) 1 034Greece_NKUA (2007-01-22) 900Iceland_ISGEM (2006-07-01) 942Israel_BGU (2007-02-04) 1 925Italy_CSPO (2006-06-26) 1 052Italy_INRAN (2006-07-26) 900Netherlands_NEVO (2006-07) 776Norway_UiO (2007-01-16) 1 188Poland_NFNI (2007-01-03) 932Portugal_INSA (2006-08-04) 789Slovakia_FRI (2006-06-30) 1 010Spain_CESNID-INYTA (2006-11-22) 658Sweden_NFA (2007-03-26) 551Turkey _TUBITAK (2007-01-18) 980United Kingdom_IFR (2006-10-31) 1 702
20 national data sets=> 21 037 indexed foods
Specialized data sets– EuroFIR BASIS (bioactive substances in foods)– INFORMALL (information on allergenic foods)– GEMS/Foods (WHO/FAO Global Environmental Monitoring System)
The EuroFIR model (Web services)‘Extractors’
Web services
General Search Engine
EuroFIR
Local Search
Engines
National/localdatabases
EuroFIR eSearch facility
Web Services deliver data in XML format
Thank you for your patience
EuroFIRhttp://www.eurofir.net/
LanguaLhttp://www.langual.org/
