European Food Information Resource Network Explained

EuroFIR AISBL
Type:Non-profit
Founder:Former partner institutions of EuroFIR NoE
Location City:Brussels
Location Country:Belgium
Key People:Paul Finglas

Prof Maria Glibetic, Prof Barbara Korousic Seljak, Dr Aida Turrini, Luísa Oliveira and Susanne Westenbrink
Area Served:Worldwide
Product:Food Information
Method:Research, service provision, consultancy
Num Employees:4
Num Members:80

EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource) is a non-profit international association, which supports use of existing food composition data and future resources through cooperation and harmonization of data quality,[1] functionality and global standards.

The purpose of the association is the development, management, publication and exploitation of food composition data, and the promotion of international cooperation and harmonization through improved data quality, food composition database searchability and standards, for example, with the European Committee for Standardization on the standard for food data.[2] Other work includes that on ethnic [3] and traditional foods [4] and critical evaluation of data on nutrients [5]

Membership

Full members

(*) Member organisations, which are also national food composition database compilers.

Institution Acronym Country
AUA Greece
BNF United Kingdom
ETHZ Switzerland
ANSES * France
Food Research Institute FRI * Slovakia
FoodCon[6] FCN Belgium
Hellenic Health Foundation[7] HHF * Greece
IFR * United Kingdom
IMR * Serbia
RIVM * Netherlands
INSA * Portugal
INRAN * Italy
IEO * Italy
National Food & Nutrition Institute[8] NFNI Poland
THL * Finland
Nutrienten Belgie vzw[9] NUBEL * Belgium
National Food AdministrationNFA * Sweden
SLU Sweden
DTU * Denmark
NFSA Norway
Tubitak Marmara Research Centre TUBITAK * Turkey
UCC * Ireland
UHEL Finland
UL United Kingdom
WU Netherlands

Associate members

(*) Member organisations, which are also national food composition database compilers.

Institution Acronym Country
Food Centre of Food and Veterinary Service of Latvia FCF-VS * Latvia
Food Standards Australia New Zealand FSANZ * Australia
Gent University UGENT Belgium
Government of Canada Canada
Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information IAEI Czech Republic
JSI * Slovenia
Matis - Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D MATIS * Iceland
MRI * Germany
State Environmental Health Centre SEHC * Lithuania
University of Granada UGR * Spain
University of Vienna UVI Austria

Ordinary members

Institution Acronym Country
Culmarex S.A. Spain
Ian D. Unwin Food Information Consultancy IDUFIC United Kingdom
Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Balearic Islands Spain
Polytec Polytec Denmark
Procter & Gamble United Kingdom
REPLY Santer REPLY Italy
Treviso Tecnologia - Azienda Speciale per l'Innovazione della Camera Di Commercio Di Treviso TVT Italy
Uzhhorod National University Medical Faculty The Ukraine
Universidad Complutense De Madrid Spain
Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena UPCT Spain
Universita Del Salento Italy
University of Ljubljana UoL Slovenia
University of Vigo UoV Spain
University of Wolverhampton UoW United Kingdom
Verein zur Förderung des Technologietransfers an der Hochschule Bremerhaven e.V. TTZ Germany
vitakid gemeinnützige GmbH Germany
Zeinler Financial & Partner GmbH Austria

Honoured members

List of EuroFIR AISBL key people, members and collaborators on the EuroFIR website.[10]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bell . S . Pakkala . H . Finglas . MP . Jun 2012 . Towards a European food composition data interchange platform . Int J Vitam Nutr Res . 82 . 3. 209–15 . 10.1024/0300-9831/a000113 . 23258402 .
  2. Becker . W . Nov 2010 . CEN/TC387 Food Data (2010) Towards a CEN Standard on food data . Eur J Clin Nutr . 64 . Suppl 3. S49–52 . 10.1038/ejcn.2010.210 . 21045850 . free .
  3. Khokhar . S . Garduño-Diaz . SD . Marletta . L . Shahar . DR . Ireland . JD . Jansen- . van der Vliet . M . de Henauw . S . 2012 . Mineral composition of commonly consumed ethnic foods in Europe . Food Nutr Res . 56 . 17665 . 10.3402/fnr.v56i0.17665 . 22768018 . 3389737 .
  4. Costa . HS . Vasilopoulou . E . Trichopoulou . A . Finglas . P . Participants . EuroFIR Traditional . Foods Work Package . 2010 . New nutritional data on traditional foods for European food composition databases . Eur J Clin Nutr . 64 . Suppl 3. S73–81 . 10.1038/ejcn.2010.215 . 21045855 . free .
  5. Bouckaert . KP . Slimani . N . Nicolas . G . Vignat . J . Wright . AJ . Roe . M . Witthöft . CM . Finglas . PM . 2011 . Critical evaluation of folate data in European and international databases: recommendations for standardization in international nutritional studies . Mol Nutr Food Res . 55 . 1. 166–80 . 10.1002/mnfr.201000391 . 21207520 .
  6. Web site: Foodcon Food processing Plant Design Consultants. www.foodcon.com.
  7. Web site: Hellenic Health Foundation. www.hhf-greece.gr.
  8. Web site: Main page. www.izz.waw.pl.
  9. Web site: La table de composition des aliments | Banque noms de marques | le planning alimentaire nutrition . 2012-11-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120704114100/http://www.nubel.com/fra/default.asp . 2012-07-04 . dead .
  10. Web site: EuroFIR » EuroFIR Members. www.eurofir.org. March 12, 2017.