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, functionality and global standards.
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. Other work includes that on ethnic and traditional foods and critical evaluation of data on nutrients
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 ANSES * France Food Research Institute FRI * Slovakia FoodCon FCN Belgium Hellenic Health Foundation 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 INRAN * Italy IEO * Italy National Food & Nutrition Institute NFNI Poland National Institute for Health and Welfare THL * Finland Nutrienten Belgie vzw 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.
References
External links 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