LATINFOODS: food composition activities in Latin America 2001–2002

Readiness of food composition databases and food component analysis systems for nutrigenomics

“…Food composition databases have been developed in varying degrees of completeness, largely by global regional database working groups, and from the expertise of USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists and their counterparts in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other countries (Baingana, 2004;de Pablo, 2004;Gnagnarella et al, 2004;McBurney et al, 2004;Murphy et al, 2004;van Heerden and Schonfeldt, 2004). Conferences such as the 7th International Food Data Conference held in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the 32nd National Nutrient Databank Conference held in Ottawa, Canada have promoted international networking in the development and maintenance of databases.…”