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Ruth
THANKS
Ismael

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 13:33 Charrondiere, Ruth (FAORLC) <
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> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure to send you the happiest season greetings to you and
> your families. I wish you serenity, happiness, satisfaction and being near
> people you appreciate and love.
>
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> Another year is almost gone and I can see that we as a food composition
> family have achieved a lot. For me, the most important achievement is
> knowing that we help each other when needed (including expressing our
> appreciation), are happy to meet wherever we can and that together we have
> done a lot with the few means we have. Thank you to each of you for your
> contribution, small or big, in words or acts and for any financial support
> (done or intended). At this occasion, I would like to express my
> appreciation to FAO who continues to provide some funding and part of my
> time to work on food composition and continue being INFOODS global
> coordinator.
>
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>
> I would like to mention some of the 2018 achievements which I know about –
> and sorry if I forgot some (then please share them with all):
>
> -  Kenya published their new FCT and recipe book:
> http://www.fao.org/3/I8897EN/i8897en.pdf and
> http://www.fao.org/3/I9056EN/i9056en.pdf
>
> - other countries with a new version of their FCT: Japan, USDA, Nigeria
>
> - Food composition training were held in South Africa (5d), Ethiopia (1d),
> Columbia (3d), Cuba (4d), India (1d)
>
> - regional meetings were held: AFROFOODS meeting in South Africa,
> SAARCFOODS meeting in India, LATINFOODS meeting in Mexico
>
> - we published the FAO/INFOODS/IZiNCG Global Food Composition Database for
> Phytate – Version 1.0 (PhyFoodComp1.0):
> http://www.fao.org/infoods/infoods/tables-and-databases/faoinfoods-databases/en/
>
> - we continued working on the following guidelines and FCT, which will
> hopefully be published in 2019 (with some additional funding in most)
>
> o   FAO/INFOODS Evaluation Framework to Assess the Quality of Published
> Food Composition Tables and Databases (FCT/FCDB) – ready for publication
>
> o   FAO/INFOODS Compilation Guidelines – advanced draft ready
>
> o   FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Table for West Africa (funding from Bill
> and Melinda Gates Foundation through INDDEX project)
>
> o   Spanish version of FAO/INFOODS guidelines
>
> §  FAO/INFOODS Guidelines for converting units, denominators and
> expressions
>
> §  FAO/INFOODS Guidelines for Food Matching
>
> §  FAO/INFOODS Guidelines for Checking Food Composition Data prior to
> Publication of a User Table/Database
>
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>
> We still have challenges to update the INFOODS website (not really done
> since one year) which means that the new (or newly known) FCT/FCDB are not
> accessible through the INFOODS website and some errors which occurred (e.g.
> broken links) are not repaired, nor are new regional coordinators
> published, for example:
>
> - 2015 Colombian food composition table:
> https://www.icbf.gov.co/bienestar/nutricion/tabla-alimentos
>
> - Updated French FCT (https://ciqual.anses.fr/# <https://ciqual.anses.fr/>.),
> Danish FCT –Frieda 3 (http://frida.fooddata.dk/?lang=en), Nigerian FCT (
> nigeriafooddata.ui.edu.ng)
>
> - INFOODS success stories of 2017
>
> - Argentina Declaration
>
> - INFOODS reports (regional reports, to IUNS)
>
> - the universities using the e-learning course on food composition data
>
> - The Questions and Exercises of the Food Composition Study Guide
> (English, French and Spanish) are not available not the excel files with
> the key foods exercise.
>
> I hope this problem can be fixed next year and that the INFOODS website
> will hold again all updated information
>
>
>
> Again, thanks to all for everything you contributed to a successful year
> 2018 and I also wish you a happy new year 2019 – with many new adventures
>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Ruth
>
>
>
> P.S. Reply to all only if you have an activity or publication to add that
> I forgot to mention, or other important information to share. If you want
> to wish someone a merry Christmas and a happy new year, please do it by
> sending a private email J
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