Food For Long Life

Food and nutrition information can be the most critical aspects of a healthy body and mind.

Food knowledge is essential for health assessment, the formulation of appropriate institutional and therapeutic diets, nutrition education, epidemiological research on relationships between diet and disease, plant breeding, nutrition labeling, regulations, consumer protection, and agricultural goods and products, as well as for a variety of applications in trade, research, development, and assistance.

INFOODS was established in 1984 on the basis of the recommendations of an international group convened under the auspices of the United Nations University (UNU). Its goal was to stimulate and coordinate efforts to improve quality and availability of analysis data worldwide and to ensure that anyone any where would be able to obtain adequate and reliable composition data. In furtherance of these purposes INFOODS has provided leadership and administrative framework for the development of standards and guidelines for collection, compilation, and reporting of component data.

It is establishing and coordinating a global network of regional data centers directed toward the generation, compilation and dissemination of accurate and complete data on composition. It is also the generator and repository of special international data bases and serves as a general and specific resource for persons and organizations interested in composition data on a worldwide basis.

Its Secretariat has developed the necessary software for the electronic storage of composition data and its interchange among data bases. The INFOODS effort is intrinsically interdisciplinary, depending on the efforts of scientists, analytical chemists, and nutritionists working together with computer and information scientists.

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