EuroFIR
| EuroFIR AISBL | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Not for profit |
| founding | March 23, 2009 |
| founder | Former partners of the EuroFIR Excellence Network |
| Seat | Brussels , Belgium |
| main emphasis | Use of food information |
| Action space | Worldwide |
| people | Paul Finglas (President) Prof. Maria Glibetic, Prof. Barbara Koroušic Seljak, Dr. Anna Karin Lindroos, Dr. Aida Turrini (Executive Board) |
| Employees | 5 |
| Members | 80 |
| Website | eurofir.org |
EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource) is a non-profit, international organization that supports the use of existing food information (information on energy and nutrient content, as well as content of secondary plant substances) and future newly developed resources through cooperation and harmonization of information quality, functionality and global standards supported.
EuroFIR sees its mission as the development, management, publication and utilization of food information, as well as the promotion of international cooperation and harmonization through improved data quality, database searchability and standards.
history
The European Excellence Network EuroFIR (2005-10; EuroFIR) was a Network of Excellence (NoE) consisting of 48 partners from science, research institutions and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in 27 countries. The Excellence Network was funded under the EU Sixth Framework Program (Priority 5: Food Quality and Safety; Contract No. FP6-513944).
One of its main goals was to develop, for the first time, a single online platform with up-to-date information on food composition across Europe. Another important result of EuroFIR was the establishment of a long-term sustainable platform to continue key activities of the project and this was achieved through the establishment of the non-profit organization EuroFIR AISBL. The organization now has 42 members of the original 48 EuroFIR partners. The main objective of EuroFIR AISBL is to support and promote the development, management, publication and application of food information, through international cooperation and harmonization.
Members
Full members (partner)
(*) Affiliates who are also National food composition database compilers.
| institution | abbreviation | country |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural University of Athens | AUA | Greece |
| British Nutrition Foundation | BNF | UK |
| ETH Zurich | ETHZ | Switzerland |
| French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety | ANSES * | France |
| Food Research Institute | FRI * | Slovakia |
| FoodCon | FCN | Belgium |
| Hellenic Health Foundation | HHF * | Greece |
| Institute of Food Research | IFR * | UK |
| 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 |
| Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione | INRAN * | Italy |
| Ricerca dell'Istituto Europeo di Oncologica | IEO * | Italy |
| National Food & Nutrition Institute | NFNI | Poland |
| National Institute for Health and Welfare | THL * | Finland |
| Nutrients 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 Center | TUBITAK * | Turkey |
| University College Cork | UCC * | Ireland |
| Helsinki University | UHEL | Finland |
| University of Leeds | UL | UK |
| Wageningen University | WU | Netherlands |
Associate members (partner)
(*) Affiliates who are also National food composition database compilers.
| institution | abbreviation | country |
|---|---|---|
| Food Center 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 |
| Josef Stefan Institute | JSI * | Slovenia |
| Matis - Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D | MATIS * | Iceland |
| Max Rubner Institute | MRI * | Germany |
| State Environmental Health Center | SEHC * | Lithuania |
| University of Granada | UGR * | Spain |
| University of Vienna | UVI | Austria |
Ordinary members
| institution | Acronym | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Culmarex SA | Spain | |
| Ian D. Unwin Food Information Consultancy | IDUFIC | UK |
| Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Balearic Islands | Spain | |
| Polytec | Polytec | Denmark |
| Procter & Gamble | UK | |
| 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 | UK |
| Association for the promotion of technology transfer at the Hochschule Bremerhaven eV | TTZ | Germany |
| vitakid non-profit GmbH | Germany | |
| Zeinler Financial & Partner GmbH | Austria |
Honorary members
| institution | abbreviation | country |
|---|---|---|
| Danish Food Information | DFI * | Denmark |
The list of EuroFIR AISBL key persons, members and partners can be found on the EuroFIR website.
Participation in research projects
EuroFIR is a partner in various research projects funded by the European Commission that started between 2010 and 2012. These projects cover research areas such as risk-benefit analysis of food supplements that contain phytochemicals, traceability of food information through RFID technology, the possible improvement of nutritional status through evidence-based practice of dietetics and reformulation of foods to reduce certain nutrient groups, and Total Diet Exposure Studies.
Individual evidence
- ↑ supported. org / food_information / quality_and_standards / Qualität und Standards nutrient databases ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 8, 2012
- ↑ EuroFIR Network of Excellence ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 8, 2012
- ↑ Kirche S. (2009) Food composition explained. EuroFIR Synthesis Report No. 7. Nutrition Bulletin, 34, 250-272. ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ↑ [reached http: / / www.eurofir.org/eurofir_history/ history of EuroFIR] Retrieved August 8, 2012
- ↑ EuroFIR AISBL people ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 8, 2012
- ↑ EC projects where EuroFIR AISBL is a partner ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 8, 2012
