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[email protected] Internet: http:/europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo.html EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Research Unit AP.2 - COST Contact: Mrs Marija Skerlj Address: European Commission, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200 (SDME 1/43), B-1049 Brussels - Tel. (32-2) 29-91599; fax (32-2) 29-65987 European Commission COST Action 99 Research action on food consumption and composition data LanguaL 2000 The LanguaL thesaurus Working Group on food description, terminology and nomenclature Edited by: Anders Møller and Jayne Ireland Directorate-General for Research 2000 EUR 19540 LEGAL NOTICE Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information. A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2000 ISBN 92-828-9758-3 © European Communities, 2000 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE-FREE PAPER LanguaL 2000 THE LANGUAL THESAURUS PREPARED BY ANDERS MØLLER JAYNE IRELAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our gratitude to the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for so willingly sharing all the information concerning LanguaL and other indexing systems at the FDA.