From the Editor

Acknowledgements

Committees

Understand1ng Nutrient Data Banks

• Nutr1ent Data Bases: Availability:  Opt1ons and Reliability
  Betty Perloff, Human Nutrition Information Service, USDA

• Computerization of Nutrient Composition Information (no paper submitted)
  Kenneth H. Samonds, University of Massachusetts

• Cod1ng and Indexing Systems
  Lenore Arab, Klin. Inst. fur Herzinfarktforschung, Heidelberg, Germany

• Problems Us1ng Smaller Data Bases for Dietary Evaluation
  Loretta Hoover, university of Hissouri-Columbia

• Problems Associated w1th Recipe Analysis
  Anne Marsh, Hunan Nutrition Information Service, USDA

• A Hosp1tal Application: Integrat1ng Computerized Dietary Evaluation with Other Systems
  Ann T. Sandvlck, Children's Hospital, Medical Center

• Industrial Application: Product Development and Labelling
  Nancy Rawson, Campbells Institute for Research and Technology

• Large-scale Dietary Analysis and Evaluation
  Bill Sanford, Nutrition ServIces

Overview of Government Data

• Status Report on USDA Nutr1ent Data
  Frank N. Hepburn, Nutrient Data Research, USDA

• From Nutrient Data to a Data Base for a Survey
  Eleanor H. Pao, Food Consumption Research Branch, USDA

• From Nutrient Data to a Data Base for a Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
  Connie H. Dresser, National Center for Health Statistics

• Sources of Variation in Nutrient Composition Data
  G. R. Beecher and J. M. Holden, Nutrient Composition Laboratory, USDA

Data Base Building and Use

Keynote Speaker:

Future Computers:  New Perspectives for Nutrient Databanks
Earl C. Joseph, Futurist, Anticipatory Sciences, Inc.

User Workshops

• Computer Systems
  James J. Doyle, Honeywell, Datanetwork
  Loretta W. Hoover, University of Missouri-Columbia

• Patient Care - Dietary Evaluation
  Ann T. Sandvick, Children's Hospital, Medical Center
  Joyce B. Wenz, University of Minnesota

• Food Service--Menu and Recipe Planning
  Linda S. Hicks, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Children's Hospital
  Fay Choban, University of Minnesota

• Data Base Development
  Lillian White, Dietary Analysis and Prescription Services, Inc.
  Jean Pennington, Food and Drug Administration

• Education
  Elaine H. Asp, University of Minnesota
  Joanne L. SlaVin, University of Minnesota

• Industrial Uses
  Rose Tobelmann, General Mills, Inc.
  Barbara Bentson, The Pillsbury Company

Common Conventions

• Commonalities and Differences: Are We All Speaking the Same language?
  Grace J. Petot, Case western Reserve University

• Report of International Meeting
  R. Guarth Hansen, Utah State University

• Standards Development: The ASTM Way
  John J. Rothrock and Kenneth C. Pearson, American Society for Testing and Materials

Last modified:  June 15, 2010