• Influence of Asian and South Pacific Diets on US Food Choices
  Jean Hankin, University ofHawaii

• Hispanic Foodways: Issues in Data Collection and Data Analysis
  Diva Sanjur, Cornell University

• The Swedish-American Influence on Databases
  Lena Bergstrom, Swedish National Food Administration

• Issues of Food Descriptions
  Jean Pennington, Food and Drug Administration

• IFDA Data Exchange Standard
  John Alexander, The CBORD Group

• The International Food Data Exchange
  Joanne Holden and Ellen Hurley, Nutrient Data Laboratory, ARS, USDA

• The International Interface Standard for Food Databases
  Judith Douglass, Sing-Bin Chew, Ki Lee, Judith Kidwell, and Barbara Petersen, Technical Assessment Systems, Inc., and Jean Pennington, Thomas Hendricks (retired), and Byron Bohannon, FDA

• Selecting a Food Composition Database and Software
  John Orta, PhD, California State University

• Use of Visuals in Dietary Assessment
  Lenore Kohlmeier, Alice Ammerman, and Marci Campbell, University ofNorth Carolina

• Using Internet and Electronic Bulletin Boards for Food Composition Data
  David Haytowitz, ARS, USDA

• Biologically Active Components in Foods
  Elliot Middleton, MD., SUNYat Buffalo

• New Food Ingredients and Pharmaceutical Foods
  Eric Decker, University of Massachusetts

• Impact of NLEA on Food Composition Databases

  • Roy Lyon, National Food Processors Association

  • Cindy Schweitzer, PhD, National Livestock and Meat Board

• Biotechnology and Food Composition
  Donald Beermann, PhD, Cornell University

• System Drift and Dietary Data Analysis
  Alison Eldridge, PhD, University ofMinnesota

• Development of Key Foods for Food Composition Research
  Pamela Pehrsson, ARS, USDA

• Activities of the NNDC Organizing Committee on Data Quality
  Suzanne Murphy, PhD, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley

• Activities of the NNDC Subcommittee on Letters to Legislators
  Judith Douglass, Technical Assessment Systems
  Roberta Markel, DINE Foundation

• The Future of the National Nutrient Databank
  Joanne Holden, ARS, USDA

• Update on Activities at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Centers for Disease Control and Preventionn
  Margaret McDowell, MP.H, R.D., CDC-NCHS

• 20th National Nutrient Databank Conference Laboratory Updates
  Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

Appendices

• Poster Abstracts

• Conference Exhibitors

• Conference Committees