http://www.efcoval.eu/index.htm European Food Consumption Validation project (EFCOVAL) en-us http://www.efcoval.eu/images/design/efcovallogo_90.jpg http://www.efcoval.eu/index.htm 90 56 http://www.efcoval.eu/newsletters.htm Efcoval Newsletter Issues 4 and 5 - February 2010. Issue 4 is the detailed summary report of the Closing conference, held in Utrecht in September 2009. Issue 5 is the detailed summary report of the workshop that took place just previous to the conference at the same location. http://www.efcoval.eu/conference.htm <p> The European Food Consumption Validation study (EFCOVAL) is devoted to the development and validation of a pan-European food consumption survey instrument, designed to evaluate the intake of not only foods and nutrients, but also potentially hazardous chemicals in the European population. </p> <p> EFCOVAL started in 2006 and ends September 2009. In order to disseminate the results of the EFCOVAL project to the outside world and to discuss its applicability for pan-European dietary monitoring, a closing conference will be held on 9-10 September 2009 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. </p> <p> The closing conference of EFCOVAL is open for people interested in the results of EFCOVAL, from international and national organizations in nutrition and health, including authorities, industry and science. In particular, potential users of the EPIC-SOFT program, including policymakers, representatives from governmental and scientific organizations in public health and nutrition are invited to attend the conference. </p> http://www.efcoval.eu/conf_workshop.htm <p> In the two days preceding the closing conference, on 7 and 8 September 2009 , a workshop on Pan-European Food Consumption Surveys - for Standardized and Comparable Transnational Data Collection will be held for a limited number of participants. </p> <p> This workshop will take place in Polman's Huis - Utrecht. Because a maximum of 50 participants is allowed for the workshop, you are asked to register your intention to attend and send a motivation why you want/should attend. If the maximum number is exceeded the organizing committee will make a selection. </p> http://www.efcoval.eu/newsletters.htm Includes a summary of the evaluation report: "Experiences from the Netherlands' part of the validation study" in which data collection in the Netherlands showed that the overall design of the study was feasible. Also contains information about project partners. http://www.efcoval.eu/newsletters.htm Efcoval Newsletter Issue 1 - June 2008 includes an introduction to the Efcoval project and summaries of three workshops - Food consumption data needs for the assessment of dietary exposure to flavourings in the EU, held in Rome, Italy in September 2007; Technical Workshop on statistical methods used for estimating usual intake distributions from food consumption surveys, held in Wageningen, Netherlands in March 2007; Recommendations on a trans-European dietary assessment method among children, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in May 2007.