New food composition database software available.Foodfiles 2000, the latest electronic edition of the New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. Food Composition Database, has been released by Crop and Food Research (Private Bag 11600, Palmerston North Palmerston North, city (1996 pop. 73,095), S North Island, New Zealand. It is a transportation and farm-marketing center with diverse industries. The city's agricultural college, founded in 1926, became Massey Univ. in 1964. , New Zealand). A new feature of the database offers access to ingredient information for 281 common formulations, including meat dishes, ethnic fare, cakes, sauces and dressings. Updated food categories include: bakery products, confectionery products, non-alcoholic beverages, vegetables, recipes and the reanalysis of some New Zealand beef and lamb cuts. The database also contains: information on 85 new foods, for a total of 2445; many innovative New Zealand source nutrient values; and many existing overseas values that have been updated with New Zealand-sourced data. In terms of pricing: a Foodfiles single-user license: $382.50; update, $77.00; a multi-user license (up to five users on a network): $1068.75; update, $213.00; a site license: $1350.00; update, $270.00. On another front, USDA's National Agricultural Library (NAL NAL National Agricultural Library (Agricultural Research Service; US Department of Agriculture) NAL New American Library NAL National Accelerator Laboratory NAL National Aerospace Laboratory (Japan) ) and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ) have an Internet site that helps researchers find information on dietary supplements. The site hosts the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS IBIDS International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements ) database. It contains published international scientific literature on dietary supplements from 1986 to the present. In recent years, there has been a burgeoning market in dietary supplements, and confusing claims may have been made about some of them. As a result, Congress directed NIH to promote and provide support for research on the supplements. The website offers a drop-down list drop-down list - pull-down list of key words to use as search tools to aid those unfamiliar with the terminology. Visitors to the site can simultaneously search multiple existing medical, pharmaceutical, botanical and agricultural databases. The IBIDS Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. is: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/IBIDS/. The database contains 250,000 records on journal articles. It specifically focuses on research from medical journals and other sources covering dietary supplements. IBIDS is updated monthly and quarterly. IBIDS is available to the public free of charge. Further information. On Foodfiles 2000: Emmeline Taptiklis; phone: +64 06 356 8300; fax: +64 06 351 7050; email: foodcomp@crop.cri.nz. On IBIDS: Virginia Hartmuller, Food and Nutrition Food and Nutrition See also cheese; dining; milk. accubation Rare. the act or habit of reclining at meals. alimentology Medicine. thescience of nutrition. allotriophagy Pathology. Information Center, ARS National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD; phone: 301-504-5414; fax: 301-504-6409; email: vhartmul@nal.usda.gov. |
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