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Croatia s participation in the network for the Pan-European food data bank based on household budget survey (HHBS)

Croatia joined the scientific network for the Pan-European Food Data Bank based on the household budget surveys, in short DAFNE project. Its tasks included the study of current methods of HHBS data collection and processing, as well as the resolution of all scientific and technical issues for the consolidation of the national data bases. In this context the project aimed at the development of the HHBS data base which would permit all intereseted bodies to have excess to the data collected in each country separately and in al~l countries at the same time, in order to indentify differences concerning dietary patterns and high risk population groups on account of their nutritional habits, relationship between diet and morbidity/mortality data, and the dietary intake of additives and contaminants. Utilization of HHBS data could be of greit importance for the realization of various purposes including nutrition and agricultural starategy planning and marketing purposes of food industries.

household budget survey; food data bank

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