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New LanguaL thesaurus launched: |
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| LanguaL stands for "Langua aLimentaria" or "language of food" and it provides a method for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food. The work on LanguaL was started in the late 1970's by the Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the United States Food and Drug Administration as an ongoing co-operative effort of specialists in food technology, information science and nutrition. Since 1996, the European LanguaL Technical Committee has administered the thesaurus.
LanguaL is a code to describe the origin, type and processing of foods so that they can be entered into, processed and retrieved by computerised databases. The code is the same regardless of language and so helps to eliminate the complexity of having many different words for one food.
The original ‘LanguaL Version 0’ was updated to produce version 2000 in the late 1990s. This year version 2007 was published. This new version was produced following consultation with experts in the field and includes a number of additions including an update on plant and fish species, more information about the part of the plant used for plant foods and improved descriptions of food preservatives.. | | %233%23.JPG) | |
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More information about the LanguaL thesaurus can be found at www.langual.org
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