USING INFORMATION-SYSTEMS OF THE INTERNET IN THE FIELD OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SCIENCES

Among other modern media such as newspapers, television or radio the i nternet has developed into a very important source of information offe ring a vast number of data. Within a short period one gets a lot of in formation which earlier had to be investigated lengthy. So it is obvio usly to use the excellent possibilities of the internet to get useful information in the field of food and nutrition sciences. In order to a void time-consuming and unsuccessful search of information in the data jungle of the internet it is possible to use the offer of search engi nes or better of information systems which are presented in the intern et by different organisations for the field of nutrition, food and agr iculture. After an introduction to the internet and a short view of di fferent search engines, the article presents four different informatio n systems, which focus information in the field of nutrition, food and agriculture. These information systems are the German-language system s DAINet and GENUIN as well as the English-language systems AgNIC and WAICENT.