Food Composition Databases in Italy: Problems and Perspectives |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance - Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany;2. Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine (ZfAM), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany;3. Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA;4. Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA;5. German Environment Agency (UBA), Berlin, Germany;6. Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;7. Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;8. Department of Health Sciences, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden;9. Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;10. Silent Spring Institute, Newton, MA, USA;11. Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, USA;1. College of Pharmacy, CMRI, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Anatomy and Histology, College of Korean Medicine, Daegu Haany University, Gyeongsan 712-715, Republic of Korea;3. College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea;4. Laboratory for Arthritis and Bone Biology, Fatima Research Institute, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu 701-724, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | An overview of the present Italian situation on food composition data is reported and the main current problems regarding sampling, analytical and cost problems are examined. The last edition of the Tables of Food Composition published by the National Institute of Nutrition (INN) in 1997 was considerably enriched in comparison with the previous one, with regard to both food and nutrients, following current guidelines for sampling and data quality control. Nationally based sampling plans have been developed with the collaboration of producer categories particularly with regard to some food groups (beef meat, processed meat, chicken, eggs, dairy products). Sampling protocols for poultry and processed meat are reported. New data onβ -carotene and folate determined in some Italian food by updated methodologies are compared to data reported in other tables. The differences show no complete reliability of bibliographical data. The necessity of original analytical data obtained according to both representative national sampling and well-defined analytical protocols is stressed. The main problem encountered in setting up a National Programme for Monitoring Food and Nutrients in order to create an Italian National Database for Food and Nutrients is the difficulty in obtaining financial support from public institutions. |
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