European Food Information Resource Network

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.

EuroFIR AISBL

Founder	Former partner institutions of EuroFIR NoE
Type	Non-profit
Location	Brussels, Belgium
Area served	Worldwide
Product	Food Information
Method	Research, service provision, consultancy
Members	80
Key people	Paul Finglas (President) Prof Maria Glibetic, Prof Barbara Korousic Seljak, Dr Aida Turrini, Luísa Oliveira and Susanne Westenbrink (Executive directors)
Employees	4
Website	eurofir.org

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
Agricultural University of Athens	AUA	Greece
British Nutrition Foundation	BNF	United Kingdom
ETH Zurich	ETHZ	Switzerland
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety [fr]	ANSES *	France
Food Research Institute	FRI *	Slovakia
FoodCon[6]	FCN	Belgium
Hellenic Health Foundation[7]	HHF *	Greece
Institute of Food Research	IFR *	United Kingdom
Institute of Medical Research, University of Belgrade	IMR *	Serbia
Institute of Public Health and the Environment	RIVM *	Netherlands
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge	INSA *	Portugal
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione [it]	INRAN *	Italy
Ricerca dell'Istituto Europeo di Oncologica [it]	IEO *	Italy
National Food & Nutrition Institute[8]	NFNI	Poland
National Institute for Health and Welfare	THL *	Finland
Nutrienten Belgie vzw[9]	NUBEL *	Belgium
National Food Administration	NFA *	Sweden
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	SLU	Sweden
The National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark	DTU *	Denmark
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority	NFSA	Norway
Tubitak Marmara Research Centre	TUBITAK *	Turkey
University College Cork	UCC *	Ireland
University of Helsinki	UHEL	Finland
University of Leeds	UL	United Kingdom
Wageningen University	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
Jožef Stefan Institute	JSI *	Slovenia
Matis - Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D	MATIS *	Iceland
Max Rubner Institute	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		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

Institution	Acronym	Country
Danish Food Information	DFI *	Denmark

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

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. doi:10.1024/0300-9831/a000113. PMID 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. doi:10.1038/ejcn.2010.210. PMID 21045850.
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. doi:10.3402/fnr.v56i0.17665. PMC 3389737. PMID 22768018.
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. doi:10.1038/ejcn.2010.215. PMID 21045855.
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. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201000391. PMID 21207520.
6. "Foodcon Food processing Plant Design Consultants". www.foodcon.com.
7. "Hellenic Health Foundation". www.hhf-greece.gr.
8. "Main page". www.izz.waw.pl.
9. "La table de composition des aliments | Banque noms de marques | le planning alimentaire nutrition". Archived from the original on 2012-07-04. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
10. "EuroFIR » EuroFIR Members". www.eurofir.org. Retrieved March 12, 2017.

External links

• Official website of EuroFIR/European Food Information Resource
• INFOODS – International Network of Food Data Systems
• Codex Alimentarius – Set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under their Joint Food Standards Programme.
• LanguaL – The International Framework for Food Description
• EFSA – European Food Safety Authority
• CEN – European Committee for Standardization