THE 24TH NATIONAL NUTRIENT DATABANK CONFERENCE

本申请是为明尼苏达大学流行病学部营养协调中心主办的第24届全国营养数据库会议申请资金。为期两天半的会议定于2000年7月27日至29日在明尼苏达州圣保罗举行，会议总部设在圣保罗丽笙酒店。与会者将包括来自营养和健康专业的男性和女性，他们为各种目的与食品成分数据打交道并依赖于这些数据，他们代表联邦机构、学术机构的营养研究人员、营养数据库设计者和食品制造商。使用食物成分数据对于了解营养因素和暴露对疾病病因、预防和治疗的影响至关重要。国家营养数据库会议每年举行一次，提供一个论坛，在这里可以发起食品成分数据的合作，分享营养数据发展的成就和挑战，探索食品和营养数据库的扩展和应用，以满足研究和工业的需要。本次会议的主要议题将强调当前膳食指南的变化以及对食品和营养数据库和食品标签的影响；在快速变化的市场中维护数据库的挑战；与食物分组有关的数据库问题；将营养药品和非营养食品成分添加到数据库的相关问题；关于新食品成分分析值的最新信息；新型营养计算软件综述国家营养监测最新情况；以及国家营养数据银行的未来计划。

This application is submitted to request funding for the 24th National Nutrient Databank Conference to be hosted by the Nutrition Coordinating Center located within the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. The two and one- half day conference is being planned for July 27-29, 2000 and will be held in Saint Paul, Minnesota with the Radisson Hotel Saint Paul as the conference headquarters. Participants at the conference will include men and women from nutrition and health professions who work with and depend upon food composition data for a variety of purposes and who represent federal agencies, nutrition researchers from academic institutions, nutrient database designers, and food manufacturers. The use of food composition data is essential to understanding the impact of nutritional factors and exposures on the etiology, prevention and treatment of disease. The National Nutrient Databank Conference is held annually to provide a forum where collaborations in generating food composition data can originate, achievements and challenges in development of nutrient data can be shared, and food and nutrient database expansion and applications can be explored to serve the needs of research and industry. Key topics in this conference will highlight current changes in dietary guidance and the implications for food and nutrient databases and food labeling; challenges in maintaining databases in a rapidly changing marketplace; database issues related to food grouping; issues related to adding nutraceuticals and non-nutritive food components to databases; current information on analytical values for new food components; an overview of new nutrient calculation software; national nutrition monitoring updates; and future plans for the National Nutrient Data Bank.