The EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database
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Description
The Comprehensive Food Consumption Database is a source of information on food consumption across the European Union (EU). It contains detailed data for a number of EU countries. The database plays a key role in the evaluation of the risks related to possible hazards in food in the EU and allows estimates of consumers’ exposure to such hazards, a fundamental step in EFSA’s risk assessment work. The database was also relevant for other fields of EFSA’s work, such as the assessment of nutrient intakes of the EU population. EFSA used its food classification system ‘FoodEx’ to categorise all foods and beverages included in the Comprehensive Database.
Summary statistics from the database enable quick screening for chronic and acute exposure to substances and organisms that may be found in the food chain. In the database, dietary surveys and food consumption data for each country are divided by category. These include: age, from infants to adults aged 75 years or older; food group (over 1,500) and type of consumption, covering both regular and high consumption thus allowing calculations to be tailored to each category of consumer.
The statistics on food consumption are reported in grams per day (g/day) and grams per day per kg of body weight (g/kg bw per day). The statistics for chronic food consumption are available for the total population (‘all subjects’) and for consumers of respective food categories. The statistics for acute consumption are available for all days and for the consuming days.
These food consumption statistics are stored and presented in the EFSA Data Warehouse.
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Resources
- 1. Chronic food consumption statistics - all subjects (g/day) Excel XLS
- 2. Chronic food consumption statistics - all subjects (g/kg bw per day) Excel XLS
- 3. Chronic food consumption statistics - consumers only (g/day) Excel XLS
- 4. Chronic food consumption statistics - consumers only (g/kg bw per day) Excel XLS
- 5. Acute food consumption statistics - all days (g/day) Excel XLS
- 6. Acute food consumption statistics - all days - (g/kg bw per day) Excel XLS
- 7. Acute food consumption statistics - consuming days only (g/day) Excel XLS
- 8. Acute food consumption statistics - consuming days only (g/kg bw per day) Excel XLS
- 9. Full dataset CSV
Visualisations
Documentation
- 1. Survey details HTML
- 2. Evaluation of the FoodEx, the food classification system applied to the development of the EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database PDF
- 3. Evaluation of the FoodEx, the food classification system applied to the development of the EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database HTML
- 4. Guidance for the use of the EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database HTML
- 5. Guidance for the use of the EFSA Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database PDF
- Type of Dataset
- Statistical
- Release Date
- 2016-03-01
- Modified Date
- 2018-06-15
- Temporal Coverage From
- 1997-01-01
- Temporal Coverage To
- 2012-12-31
- Geographical Coverage
- Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, Czechia, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Poland
- Language
- English
- Version
- 2
- Version notes
- New dietary surveys added in December 2015
- Catalogue
- European Union Open Data Portal
Contact
European Food Safety Authority
Via Carlo Magno 1A, 43126 Parma, Italy
Tel: +390521036111