Research lead
The EURRECA Network of Excellence has announced that its searchable software tool, Nutri-RecQuest, providing comprehensive data on current micronutrient recommendations across Europe is now available on-line.
This provides access to the data collected by EURRECA partners on current micronutrient recommendations for 29 different micronutrients for different population groups across 37 European and 8 key non-European countries/organisations. In total, it contains information on over 20,000 micronutrients recommendations. The web-based database is freely accessible at http://www.serbianfood.info/eurreca/.
The data show that there are considerable variations for many micronutrients between countries, such as those for folic acid and Vitamin D. Additionally, EURRECA’s work highlights that nations have based their current recommendations on different information, which is confusing for policy-makers, health professionals, food industry and consumers, and may not ensure adequate micronutrient intake across European populations.
EURRECA is producing scientific guidelines and tools to help scientists, committees and countries produce methodologies to standardise micronutrient recommendations across Europe.
Nutri-RecQuest is the latest research and information tool to be made available to those responsible for setting micronutrient recommendations, as well as for policy makers, nutrition scientists, the food industry and consumer organisations.
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