title: International Interface Standard for Food Databases.
abstract: An International Interface Standard for Food Databases is under development to help overcome the technical and semantic barriers to the use of food-related databases. The Interface Standard is a system for efficient storage of all relevant descriptive information about foods. The schema for the Standard consists of ten components--food/food product identification, food names, LANGUAL factors, other food descriptors, other descriptive coding systems, ingredients/recipes, standards, substances, organizations, and data sources. The Interface allows for retrievals of data associated with specific foods from databases by using queries based on any of a wide variety of descriptive terms. The schema of the Interface has been completed; the remaining work is to build the computer software to provide access to, and use of, the schema.
authors.affiliation: US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Washington, DC 20204, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Pennington
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Hendricks
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Douglass
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kidwell
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005502:Food; D005504:Food Analysis; D005515:Food Labeling; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012984:Software; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration