Teagasc, the Irish Food and Agriculture Development Authority has launched the National Food Residue Database website at the Teagasc Food Research Centre at Ashtown, Dublin.
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The database will be available to public access through an interactive website http://nfrd.teagasc.ie. The NFRD website has been developed by the Food Safety Department at the Teagasc National Food Research Centre within a research project funded by the Food Institutional Research Measure through the Department of Agriculture & Food.
Launching the website Dr. Michael O’Keeffe, head of laboratory, outlined the concept and content behind the site and provided an introduction to using the website. In addition, details of a similar database in the Netherlands were presented in the context of similar developments throughout Europe.
“Chemical residue in food, along with microbial pathogens, represent one of the principle determents for the acceptability of food products to the consumer,” said Dr O’Keeffe. “Development of the NFRD website and interactive websites provide a readily available single source for this information to potential users.”
“The NFRD data, which includes veterinary drugs, prohibited substances, pesticides and heavy metals are taken from monitoring and surveillance programmes and from studies and surveys on chemical residues and contaminants in food,” he said.
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By GlobalData“To assist users in the interpretation of the data contained in the NFRD, an extensive library of information is accessible via the website, including details on regulations, specifications and norms relating to residues in food”.
Teagasc also published the NFRD Report 2005 at the launch. This report contains a wealth of useful information on the material in the database and provides a summary of the data in hard copy.
“This website and report will position Ireland among the elite of Europe on Food Residue Databases” said Dr. O’Keeffe.
