Food Description |
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| Food Description in Food Data Collections |
There is a general agreement on the importance of food nomenclature and
description. The preparation of reliable data on food requires precise
identification of foods. Even data of good quality can be a source of
error if they are derived from foods that are not clearly defined.
It is difficult to exchange data on foods, or to understand and compare
nutritional status for different countries or individuals, without a
coherent description of foods in databases [1].
It is not the intention here to go into depth about food
classification and description. This has already been done in many
other places, and pros and cons of different systems are well
documented [2,3,4,5]. Neither is it the purpose here to give
preference to one or more systems above other. It is up to the food
composition compiler to find out which system or systems that fulfil
the task for the compiler.
As it is the case with component description (see
Components), the many different national, regional and
international systems for food classification and description are
all created with specific and/or different purposes in mind, and it
may often be necessary to use several of the systems to fulfil
different needs.
For information retrieval, it is however important to use a
system that is based on internationally recognized structured
thesaural principles, for example based on the ISO thesaurus
standards [8,9,10].
To be continued.
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Wanda Polacchi:
Standardized food terminology: an Essential Element for Preparing and
Using Food Consumption Data on an International Basis.
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Vol.8, No.2, p.66-68, 1987.
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Jayne Ireland and Anders Møller:
Food Classification and Description.
In Caballero B, Finglas P, Toldra F.:
Encyclopedia of Food and Health. Elsevier, 2015 (In press).
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Jayne D. Ireland and Anders Møller:
Review of International Food Classification and Description.
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Vol. 13, p. 529-538, 2000.
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Jayne Ireland, Anders Møller, Simone Bell, Tue Christensen,
Andreu Farran-Codina, Elin Björge Löken, Ada Naska, Ólafur
Reykdal, Mark Roe, Susanne Westinbrink:
Review of Food Classification and Description Systems for Use in
Food Composition Databases.
EuroFIR Deliverable 1.6.6a, February 2006.
- Jayne Ireland, Anders Møller, Wulf Becker:
Food Identification and Description in European Food Composition
Databases.
EuroFIR IA 1.6 Discussion paper, Lisbon, 3 March 2005.
- Barbara A. Burlingame:
Food Nomenclature and Terminology: Standards and
Harmonisation for Food Composition Databases and Food
Trade.
16th International Congress of Nutrition, 1998.
- Jean A. T. Pennington:
Food Classification and Terminology Systems.
Keynote address at First International Food Data
Base Conference.
Proceedings of the First International Food Data Base
Conference, , Sydney, Australia, 22–24 September 1993.
AOAC International, 2nd ed., 2000.
- International Standard ISO 2788:1986:
Documentation- Guidelines for the establishment and
development of monolingual thesauri. Revised by ISO 25964-1:2011
- International Standard ISO 5964:1985:
Documentation- Guidelinesfor the establishment and
development of multilingual thesauri. Revised by ISO
25964-1:2011
- International Standard ISO ISO 25964-1:2011:
Information and documentation -- Thesauri and interoperability
with other vocabularies -- Part 1: Thesauri for information
retrieval
- Pennington J.A.T.:
Food Classification and Terminology Systems.
Keynote address at First International Food Data
Base Conference.
Proceedings of the First International Food Data Base
Conference, , Sydney, Australia, 22–24 September 1993.
AOAC International, 2nd ed., 2000.
- Ian Unwin, Jayne Ireland and Anders Møller:
Position Paper on the Eurocode 2 Coding System.
EuroFIR Deliverable D1.6.7, December 2006.
- Ian Unwin and Anders Møller:
Eurocode 2 review and core classification.
Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, 1998.
ISBN 87-90599-24-1.
- European Food Safety Authority (2011):
Report on the development of a Food Classification and
Description System for exposure assessment and guidance
on its implementation and use.
EFSA Journal 2011;9(12):2489
- European Food Safety Authority:
Food classification - FoodEx2.
Website accessed 2014-05-08
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