EuroFIR is funded by the European Commission’s Research Directorate General under the “Food Quality and Safety Priority” of the Sixth Framework. See http://www.cordis.lu/food/home.html

The Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6) http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/home.cfm

The EuroFIR project is coordinated by the Institute of Food Research in the UK http://www.ifr.ac.uk

The Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELENA) project is a Sixth Framework Programme Project that aims to provide harmonised and comparable data about food intake among male and female European adolescents, taking advange of computer-based dietary assessment tools. http://www.helenastudy.com/

The Langual International Framework for Food Description (LanguaL) is an automated method for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food. The LanguaL thesaurus provides a standardised language for describing foods, specifically for classifying food products for information retrieval http://www.langual.org/

The International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS) is establishing and coordinating a global network of regional data centers directed toward the generation, compilation and dissemination of accurate and complete data on food 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 food composition data on a worldwide basis. Its Secretariat has developed the necessary software for the electronic storage of food composition data and its interchange among data bases http://www.fao.org/infoods/

The Lipgene Project www.nutrition.org.uk/lipgene

The European Food Consumption Validation project EFCOVAL aims to further develop and validate a trans-European food consumption method to estimate the intake of food, nutrients and potentially hazrdous chemicals www.efcoval.eu

EuroFIR will be present at the following conferences in 2008

Euroscience open forum, ESOF, Barcelona, Spain, July 2008 www.esof2008.org

The BA Festival of Science, Liverpool, UK, September 2008 http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/FestivalofScience/AboutFOS/2008FestivalofScience/index.html