Heather Greenfield for co-authoring the Greenfield and Southgate book (known as the bible for food composition), her long drive for high quality food composition data, her work in developing countries and for having organized the 1st IFDC in Sydney in 1993
Prapasri Puwastien for her achievements in ASEANFOODS and advancing analytical quality including the production of reference material and the conduction of proficiency testing
2015
Ruth Charrondiere for her global achievements in capacity development, developing new food composition guidelines and databases and strengthening the INFOODS network
2017
T. Longvah for his achievements in publishing the new Indian Food Composition Table in 2017 with solely analytical data for over 500 foods and 160 nutrients and bio-active compounds, and for his work as SAARCFOODS coordinator
2019
Hettie Schönfeldt for the achievements in bringing food composition forward in Africa, especially when serving as ECSAFOODS (1999-2001) or AFROFOODS (2001-2010) coordinator. She organized six training courses, included food composition in her work as professor at the University of Pretoria or in her national or international advisory work.
Greenfield Southgate Lecture at International Food Data Conferences (since 2011)
Criteria
Distinguished scientist in the field of nutrition (or closely related field), who has made outstanding contributions to the topic of food composition
Has a significant publication record
Can provide insightful and/or innovative perspectives to the discipline
Recipients
2011
Barbara Burlingame: Saving the Planet – Sustainable Diets, Biodiversity and Food Composition
2013
Paul Finglas: Advances in Food Composition Research and New Applications for Food Composition Data in Europe and Future Trends.
2015
Late Joanne Holden delivered by Pamela Pehrsson: Keeping Pace with Emerging Trends in Food Composition Research and Database Applications
2017
Lilia Masson: Biodiversity and Healthy Foods in Latin America
2019
Paul Hulshof for running the International Postgraduate Course on the Production and Use of Food Composition Data in Nutrition in Wageningen, the Netherlands, since 2005 which started in 1994. He has also contributed to capacity development though his teaching and chemical analysis work at the Wageningen University and EuroFIR.
INFOODS Success Stories Awards (since 2015)
The INFOODS Success Story award recognizes significant achievements of individuals or groups in the implementation of food composition activities such as:
Significant analytical programs
Significant advocacy
New food composition tables or databases, tools or guidelines
Capacity building and education.
In 2015, on an exceptional basis all submitted success stories received an award due to difficulties to designate one success story per regional data centre. Therefore, the following projects and individuals received the award for their food composition activities:
