On 6 October 2010, one of EURRECA's important tools, Nutri-RecQuest, a web-based search engine on current micronutrient recommendations went live. It is now freely available here.

Micronutrient recommendations are intakes of micronutrients sufficient to meet the requirements of the majority of healthy individuals of a specific population. Collected from 37 European countries /organisations and 8 non-European countries/regions, the database contains information for 29 micronutrients for different population groups (infants, children & adolescent, adults, elderly, pregnant and lactating women). In total, over 20,000 recommendations concerning micronutrients can be found.

Nutri-RecQuest is the latest research and information tool made available to those responsible for setting micronutrient recommendations, as well as for policy makers, nutrition scientists, the food industry and consumer organisations. The database allows comparison and evaluation of existing micronutrient recommendations and.provides the option to link through to the original publications. It can, therefore, be linked with other nutritional software tools such as those for menu planning or design of innovative foods. 


More information
To know more about the EURRECA's tools, click here.
The press release on NutriRecQuest is available here.

Reference
Cavelaars AE, Kadvan A, Doets EL, Tepsic J, Novakovic R, Dhonukshe-Rutten R, Renkema M, Glibetic M, Bucchini L, Matthys C, Smith R, van't VP, de Groot CP and Gurinovic M (2010). Nutri-RecQuest: a web-based search engine on current micronutrient recommendations. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 64 Suppl 2, S43-S47. Read the article.

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