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 Updated 2015-10-09

The International LanguaL Steering Committee

The Charter of the International LanguaL Steering Committee was signed by nine national/international organisations in 1995. The principal goal of this charter is to provide a commitment and a mechanism to work together on developing ways to describe, share and exchange food information using LanguaL and to provide a common unified oversight of technical committee activities.

The original members of the International LanguaL Steering Committee were U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Centre de Rechèrche pour l'Étude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie (CRÉDOC), Centre National des Études Vétérinaires (CNEVA-CIQUAL), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), University of Horticulture and Food Industry of Budapest, National Food Agency of Denmark, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), and FLAIR Eurofoods-Enfant (CEC) and its successor.

The International LanguaL Steering Committee is no longer active.

Regional LanguaL Technical Committees

The International Steering Committee accomplished most of its work through two regional technical committees: a European Technical Committee and a U.S. Technical Committee. These had an open structure, with core members, chosen from members of the International LanguaL Steering Committee, responsible for the maintenance and updating of the LanguaL descriptor system and invited experts.

From 1996, the LanguaL Secretariat has been situated in Europe. Currently, the European LanguaL Technical Committee comprises two members, Dr. Jayne Ireland and Anders Møller, Danish Food Informatics.

Suggestions and Proposals

A thesaurus is an evolving language, which should reflect scientific and technological evolutions in the field of foods. Suggestions to introduce new concepts or to improve those proposed in this edition are therefore welcome. Special interest groups on different topics are formed as need arises.

All communication in the LanguaL community is via e-mail and via the LanguaL site (www.langual.org), e.g on changes to LanguaL via the proposals page.

Eventual suggestions for updates/corrections should be send to the

LanguaL Secretariat and European LanguaL Technical Committee

Dr. Jayne Ireland
Danish Food Informatics (DFI)
Borgediget 12
DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
E-mail:

 

or

U.S. LanguaL Technical Committee

no current appointment

Other LanguaL contacts

Denmark

Anders Møller
Danish Food Informatics
Borgediget 12
DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
E-mail:  

Finland

Heli Reinivuo
National Public Health Institute
Mannerheimintie 166
FIN-00300 Helsinki, Finland
Fax: +358-9-47448591
Email:

France

Jean-Luc Volatier
Food Consumption Observatory (ANSES-OCA)
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) 
27-31 avenue du Général Leclerc, BP 19
F-94701 Maisons-Alfort cedex , France
Fax: +33 1 49 77 38 92
E-mail:

WHO IARC

Nadia Slimani
WHO-IARC
150, cours Albert Thomas,
69008 Lyon, France
E-mail:




 News
First Albanian food composition tables (2022).

2023-07-01
First Albanian food composition tables (2022) published with assistance from NPPC-VÚP in the frame of the Slovak Republic Official Development Support Programme.
Download here.
 
Swedish food composition database updated.

2023-06-13
New version of the Swedish food composition database with updated nutritional values for several food groups and new foods and iodine values added. See the Swedish Food Agency's website.
 
First edition of the Kyrgyz Food Composition Table.

2022-10-04
Kyrgyzstan has released their first national food composition table. For more information, see the EuroFIR website.
 
2021 Release of the New Zealand Food Composition Database.

2022-10-04
The 2021 update of New Zealand food composition database (NZFCD) released online on 31st March 2022. For more information, see the EuroFIR website.