FOOD COMPOSITION DATA IN EASTERN-EUROPE

In order to increase a collaboration of institutions in Eastern Europe an countries working on food composition activities, discussing existi ng problems and formulating recommendations for future co-operation, F AO had charged the Food Research Institute of Bratislava to organize a meeting, which was held on 22-27 April 1995 in Modra, Slovak Republic . Twenty-seven participants from 13 Eastern and Central European count ries took part in this meeting. This presentation sets out the meeting summary with conclusions and recommendations, and an overview of stat us of food composition activities in Eastern Europe as well as detaile d information about national food composition tables (title, year of t he last edition, number of food entries, number of nutrients, language ), and information on food databanks and software (title, number of fo od entries, number of nutrients, type of computer, national language, programming language, date of first and latest version, applications, data accessed) in the mentioned region. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Sc ience Ltd