Food indexing with EuroFIR classification

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Food indexing with EuroFIR classification

• Jayne Ireland
• French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA)
• Anders Møller
• Danish Food Information (DFI)

EuroFIR Compiler Network meeting, Norwich,
2008-03-18
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Food Description task force

• Background documents
• Review paper on food classification and
  description systems
• Position paper on Eurocode 2
• Recommendations for standard food classification
  and description
• Mapping national food classification systems to
  Eurocode2 and EFG (Eurofoods EFCOSUM)
• Food Product Indexer software
• Food-indexing course (Wageningen 2005, Paris
  2007)
• Indexed food data sets

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FPI version 2007
EuroFIR Food Product Indexer version 2007

• EuroFIR food classification
• Related terms
• Additional descriptors (plants, animals,...)

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Food indexing March 2008

• Number of indexed data sets in EuroFIR Compiler
  Network has progressed from 20 to 27
• Number of indexed foods has risen 21 037 -gt 24
  947
• 23 265 foods indexed with EuroFIR food groups
• Specialized data sets
• EuroFIR BASIS (bioactive substances in foods)
• GEMS/Foods (WHO/FAO Global Environmental
  Monitoring System)
• INFORMALL (information on allergenic foods)

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2007 Quality assessment of food indexing
problems in reproducibility and correctness
Out of 20,000 foods, 1,000 needed to be reviewed
Physical state at room temperature (ice cream)
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Food indexing 2008 EuroFIR classification

• EuroFIR Food classification good!
• About 2 foods in data sets need to be reviewed
• Definitions need to be made clearer
• LanguaL description more accurate than food names
  in English !-)

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Food indexing to be done in 2008

• Update indexed data sets
• Complete corrections of food indexing
• Add EuroFIR food classification (BG, ES)
• New foods goal Index all foods in published
  FCDBs
• Index new data sets
• USDA Standard Reference 20 (collaboration
  USDA/FDA)
• TRANSFAIR (fatty acid data)
• Vitamin K in foods (SE)
• Carotenoids in foods (AT, SE DK)
• French Polyphenols Database
• USDA Special Interest Databases on Carotenoids,
  Choline, Flavonoids, Isoflavones,
  Proantho-cyanidins

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National language versions of LanguaL thesaurus

• Danish (updated 2007)
• French (updated 2008)
• Italian (CSPO-INRAN, delivered 2008)
• German (UVI, MRI) ?
• Spanish (CESNID-UGR) ?