Athar, N. and Cunningham, J. and Aalbersberg, William G.L. (2007) Food composition activities in the Oceania region. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 20 (8). pp. 709-712. ISSN 0889-1575
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OCEANIAFOODS was established in 1987. Countries under its umbrella are Australia, New Zealand and the Secretariat of Pacific Communities(SPC, formerly the South Pacific Commission), which represents 22 Pacific Island governments. The convenorship rotates among these three regions. This report highlights major activities undertaken by OCEANIAFOODS from 2002 to 2005. The SPC, based in New Caledonia, includes a Lifestyle Health section (LHS) and a sub-office in Fiji. In Fiji, the Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO) commissioned a project to strengthen food analytical capability in the Pacific region. The project, which ran from April 2002 to August 2004, succeeded in meeting all its goals with some adjustments. In Australia, food composition work is undertaken by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and has focused on three key areas: providing a free web-based nutrition panel calculator
for nutrition labelling, preparing for the release of updated Australian nutrient data, and initiating several small analytical projects including the analysis of iodine levels in common foods and folates and folic acid in foods such as breakfast cereals. Activities outside FSANZ include further research on folate analysis at the University of New South Wales. In New Zealand, the focus has been on
developing the food composition database. In 2003, Dr. Heather Greenfield reviewed the New Zealand Food Composition Database(NZFCDB), and in July 2004 the Ministry of Health renewed Crop and Food Research’s contract until June 2007 to maintain the database. Publications over the last 3 years include the sixth edition of the concise food composition tables and release of an updated FOODFiles2004 electronic data files. In April 2005, the Seventh OCEANIAFOODS Conference, Innovations in Nutrient Information, was held in Wellington, New Zealand. Fifty-nine delegates attended the conference at which keynote addresses were given by Joanne Holden (USA), Bill Aalbersberg (Fiji), and Heather Greenfield (Australia). The conference resulted in 13 recommendations being formulated. The convenor of the next OCEANIAFOODS conference is Professor Bill Aalbersberg, Fiji.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TX Home economics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > Institute of Applied Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Mereoni Camailakeba |
| Date Deposited: | 25 May 2007 04:39 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2012 07:21 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/683 |
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