SAMFOODS: Food Composition Activities in South American Countries 1999–2000

Development of SICA-COR, a food composition information system for Costa Rica

“…Analytical laboratories and information data providers were revisited to obtain missing information. A first report with data on the composition of local foods was submitted to the LATINFOODS Regional Center (de Pablo, 2002), and a second one, prepared with the SICA-COR software, was submitted in November 2005 (FAO/LATINFOODS, 2006).…”

LATINFOODS: food composition activities in Latin America 2001–2002

“…These subregional centers were created in 1994 during the ''FAO/UNU Discussions on Food Composition Data for Developing Countries'' meeting carried out in Tunis with the purpose of supporting and coordinating the food Bratislava in 2001(de Pablo, 2002. This paper presents the main activities of LATINFOODS during the period 2001-2002.…”