Compilations of data on the nutritional composition of foods are essential tools for nutritionists, especially those concerned with monitoring adequacy of dietary intake, for linking diet to health and disease, for planning and prescription, education, food security, and for trade, export and legislation. A two-week training course on the production and use of food composition data in nutrition is offered by Graduate School VLAG and the Division of Human Nutrition in cooperation with United Nations University (UNU), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and the European Food Information Resource Network (EuroFIR) in Wageningen, The Netherlands from 1-13 October 2007 (FoodComp 2007). Earlier courses in Wageningen were organised by the FLAIR Eurofoods-Enfant Project of the European Community and by VLAG-UNU-FAO-IUNS-COST 99 in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005. Regional courses were organised in Chile in 1995; in Argentina in 1996; South Africa in 1997, 1999 and 2002; in Jamaica in 2001; in Thailand in 2002, in India and in Slovak Republic in 2006.

FoodComp 2007 will take place from October 1 to 13 in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Download the brochure.