Further effort for building Albanian food composition database, and its enrichment with Kosovo food composition data

Food sector is changing rapidly and getting more complex day by day. Many innovative food products are producing and trading all over the world and the consumers are more aware about food content and nutritive and healthy values. Getting information on the scientific way, different tools and software are prepared by qualified experts for collecting, registering, and analyzing food composition data, as beneficial for food policies, industries, studies, modeling diets and foods, etc. This paper aims to present a simple model of Albania food composition database (FCD) and further efforts for its development by involvement and using also for Kosovo food data. Registration of 70 raw, pre-prepared and food products, which are most consumed and produced in both countries, was achieved by Daris database management system, developed and licensed by National Agricultural and Food Center-Food Research Institute, in Bratislava, as part of Official Development Support Program for Central and Eastern Europe in the food composition area, this initiative is financially supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic. Future enhancement of FCD, is needed for Albania and it will be useful also in neighbor countries as well

The EuroFIR Food Platform: Further integration, refinement and exploitation for its long-term self-sustainability - Report on 1st year certification scheme

The planned certification of food database FCDB Compiler organizations is a key part of the overall quality framework that was developed in EuroFIR NoE and further extended in Nexus (WP1). Task 1.2.2 requires assessment of up to a maximum 20 national Food Composition Database FCDB Compiler organisations during 2years and overall recommendations for continuation in the future. This report describes reviews of 10 FCDB Compiler organisations and summarises initial conclusions. FCDB Compiler organisations have benefitted from the opportunity to review their data compilation processes and identify areas that could be improved and this information is important for their own organisation and management operations. The reviews have demonstrated the impact of EuroFIR developed guidelines for compilation processes and how FCDB Compilers have implemented quality management frameworks.FP

The EuroFIR Food Platform: Further integration, refinement and exploitation for its long-term self-sustainability - Final list of certified FCDB compiler organizations and future plans for continuation of the certification scheme

The planned certification of food composition database (FCDB) Compiler organizations is a key part of the overall quality framework that was developed in EuroFIR NoE and further extended in Nexus (WP1). Task 1.2.2 requires assessment of up to a maximum 20 national FCDB Compiler organisations over 2 years and overall recommendations for continuation in the future. This report describes reviews of 16 FCDB Compiler organisations and summarises conclusions based on the reports. FCDB Compiler organisations have benefitted from the opportunity to review their data compilation processes and identify areas that could be improved and this information is important for their own organisation and management operations. The reviews have demonstrated the impact of EuroFIR developed guidelines for compilation processes and how FCDB Compilers have implemented quality management frameworks.FP