Edition 6 - May, 1999

Bioinformatics corner: Food sites on the Web

Numerous sites on food-related issues can be consulted on the Internet.
Here are a few addresses.

• USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center provides links to food safety and HACCP information, an electronic discussion group, the Education Material Database, and the Training Programs and Resources Database
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodborne/foodborn.htm
  
  
• Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration
  http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/
  
  
• The Flair-flow Europe web site disseminates summary results from EU-sponsored food research and technological development projects
  http://www.exp.ie/flair.html
  
  
• New calls for food-related R&D projects are publicised on the EC 5th Framework "Quality of Life" programme home page
  http://cordis.europa.eu.int/life/home.html
  
  
• The International HACCP Alliance, College Station, Texas
  http://ifse.tamu.edu/haccpall.html
  
  
• Food Institute of Canada provides an Implementation Manual and HACCP Generic Models and links to Food Safety sites at:
  http://foodnet.fic.ca/foodsafety/safety.html
  
  
• The News for Food Safety International web site at:
  http://www.nsf.org/
  
  
• The Final Report of the Belgian Impulse Program on Food-Related Health Hazards (1990-1995) can be consulted at:
  http://www.belspo.be/fedra/bib/e-intro.htm

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