Food composition data in Eastern Europe

In order to increase a collaboration of institutions in Eastern European countries working on food composition activities, discussing existing problems and formulating recommendations for future co-operation, FAO had charged the Food Research Institute of Bratislava to organize a meeting, which was held on 22–27 April 1995 in Modra, Slovak Republic. Twenty-seven participants from 13 Eastern and Central European countries took part in this meeting. This presentation sets out the meeting summary with conclusions and recommendations, and an overview of status of food composition activities in Eastern Europe as well as detailed information about national food composition tables (title, year of the last edition, number of food entries, number of nutrients, language), and information on food databanks and software (title, number of food entries, number of nutrients, type of computer, national language, programming language, date of first and latest version, applications, data accessed) in the mentioned region.