TY - JOUR
TI - The European Nutrient Database (ENDB) for nutritional epidemiology
AU - Charrondiere, UR
AU - Vignat, J
AU - Moller, A
AU - Ireland, J
AU - Becker,
AU - W
AU - Church, S
AU - Farran, A
AU - Holden, J
AU - Klemm, C
AU - Linardou, A
AU - and Mueller, D
AU - Salvini, S
AU - Serra-Majem, L
AU - Skeie, G
AU - van
AU - Staveren, W
AU - Unwin, I
AU - Westenbrink, S
AU - Slimani, N
AU - Riboli, E
JO - Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
PY - 2002
VL - 15
TODO - 4
SP - 435-451
PB - ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
SN - 0889-1575, 1096-0481
TODO - 10.1006/jfca.2002.1089
TODO - nutrient intake; standardization; food composition table; nutrient
database; EPIC
TODO - Food composition databases (FCDB), as well as standardized calculation
procedures are required for international studies on nutrition and
disease to calculate nutrient intakes across countries. Comparisons of
national FCDBs have shown that major improvements are needed in
standardization and documentation at the food and nutrient levels to
minimize systematic and random errors in nutrient intake estimations.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), together with
national FCDB compilers, researchers in international studies (EURALIM,
SENECA) and industry, is currently developing a standardized and
critically assessed nutrient database for the 10 countries involved in
the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC):
Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands,
Norway, Spain and Sweden. It will be compiled using the general concept
for a standardized FCDB, food classification and description, and
calculation procedures developed for EPIC. National compilers will
provide and document a subset of their nutrient data and some will
evaluate them. Updated ‘Food Table Input’ (FTI) software will be used to
evaluate and compile the data. The European Nutrient Database (ENDB)
will contain values for approximately 100 nutrients for 1000 foods per
country, which is mainly derived from EPIC consumption data. In the
future, this database could be extended to include more foods,
components and countries. Additionally, methodological issues should be
addressed elsewhere and awareness of the need for standardizing FCDBs
and their procedures has to be increased among users and funding
agencies. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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