LanguaL™ 2012 The LanguaL™ Thesaurus

This work was completed in collaboration with EuroFIRNexus -- The EuroFIR Food Platform: Further integration, refine ment and Exploitation for its long-term self-sustainability.

Funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme. Grant agreement no: 265967.

LanguaLTM 2012 The LanguaLTM Thesaurus

Anders M?ller and Jayne Ireland

EuroFIR Nexus Technical Report D1.17a

Danish Food Information

Disclaimer This work was completed in collaboration with EuroFIR-Nexus - The European Food Platform: Further integration, refinement and Exploitation for its long-term self-sustainability. Funded under the EU 7th Framework, Grant agreement no: 265967. EuroFIR, the world leading European network on food composition databank systems () is a partnership between universities, research institutes and small-tomedium sized enterprises (SMEs) from over 30 countries. EuroFIR aims to develop an online platform with up-to-date food composition data, providing a single, authoritative source of food composition data

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LanguaLTM 2012 THE LANGUALTM THESAURUS

REVISED AND EDITED BY ANDERS M?LLER JAYNE IRELAND

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Cataloguing information: LanguaLTM 2012 ? The LanguaLTM Thesaurus EuroFIR-Nexus Technical Report D1.17a Anders M?ller and Jayne Ireland Denmark: Danish Food Information 2013 - 1456 pp. - 21 x 29.7 cm. ISBN 978-87-92125-20-0 ? Danish Food Information, the LanguaLTM European Technical Committee and the EuroFIR Consortium,

2013 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Denmark.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to express our gratitude to the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for so willingly sharing all the information concerning LanguaLTM and other indexing systems at the FDA. Special thanks goes to Michele R. Chatfield, Ann Marie Poulsen and Charles E. Exley of CFSAN for providing the original Factored Food Vocabulary and LanguaLTM files, and for many good discussions concerning LanguaLTM over the years. Special thanks goes to Elizabeth C. Smith, whose enthusiasm and energy has been inspiring for us in the EuroFIR food indexing courses and during the assessment of the indexed files, and without whom the LanguaLTM thesaurus would not be where it is today. Also, thanks to Joanne Holden, USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory, for following the continued work on LanguaLTM so closely.

LanguaLTM has a foundation that goes far back in time, and we find it important to mention the people, who brought LanguaLTM forward to us. Especially thanks to Bradley Rosenthal and Thomas Hendricks, both now retired from the FDA, for their enthusiasm and energy in promoting the LanguaLTM ideas in the past..We would especially like to express our gratitude to Ivan Varsanyi and his colleague Judit Monspart-Senyi, Hungary, who during the bilateral French-Hungarian BALATON and the European COST Action 99 projects persistently invoked updates and changes to the LanguaLTM Thesaurus to make the thesaurus up-to-date.

The most important event since the introduction of the LanguaLTM 2000 Thesaurus in 2000 is the introduction of the LanguaLTM Food Product Indexer, which greatly facilitates the indexing of foods in food data bases. The Food product Indexer was originally developed by Erik N?rby, Polytec, and Anders M?ller, Danish Food Information, with a lot of help and constructive criticism from Jayne Ireland, Danish Food Information, and Tue Christensen, National Food Institute, Danish Technical University. It has taken much thought and many hours to develop the software to the present stage as a user-friendly LanguaLTM indexing tool.

For the most recent versions of the LanguaLTM Thesaurus we also owe special thanks to Johanna Dwyer and Leila Saldanha of the US Office of Dietary Supplements and to Heli Reinivuo, Elly Buurma, Isabelle Berta-Vanrullen and Benoit Labarbe of the national EuroFIR food composition database teams for their expertise in the inclusion of Dietary Supplements in the thesaurus.

We would also like to extend our thanks to David Haytowitz of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, to Antoni Colom Umbert, Antoni Colom Fern?ndez, Pere Palou Vidal, Manuel Mo?ino G?mez, Marta Autonell Caldentey and Ignacio Ricci Cabello of the Ministry of Health and Consumers of the Balearic Islands and to the members of the EuroFIR food composition database teams. The compilers in the USDA and the EuroFIR network indexed the foods in their food composition databases, using the LanguaLTM Food Product Indexer. This work has led to many comments and suggestions, most of which are now included in the LanguaLTM Thesaurus.

Furthermore, we would like to thank Marie Machackova, Irena Sukova and Maria Garcia Dias in the EuroFIR Network for their translations of the thesaurus to Czech and Portuguese, and to Gig Graham of Benetta Corporation, USA, for many lively discussions and proposals for updating and extending the LanguaLTM thesaurus.

This updated version of the LanguaLTM 2012 Thesaurus is published with the support from the EuroFIR partners. We are very grateful for this support.

Roskilde, March 2013

Jayne Ireland & Anders M?ller LanguaLTM Technical Committee

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