Food composition data interchange

The links below provide guidelines, recommended standards and a recognized format for the interchange of food composition data. During the development of these standards, part of the process included a review of existing interchange systems and formats, including analysis of their compatibilities and feasibility.

• INFOODS Food Composition Data Interchange Handbook (1992) (PDF also available)
• EUROFOODS/COST 99 Recommendations for Data Interchange (2000) 
• Report of the FAO technical workshop on Standards for food composition data interchange, (2004)
• EuroFIR Food Data Transport Package (2005)
• Pakkala, H., Martínez de Victoria, I., Christensen, T., Unwin, I., Korhonen, T., Gunnarsson, I., Presser, K. (2012) EuroFIR web services – specification of request-response message exchange patterns, version 1.2, EuroFIR Technical Report 2.8