Operation of Private Consultative Body for Standardization of Food Nutrition Information DB

Integration of Items and Notation Methods... Alleviating Inconvenience of Duplicate DB Provision

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] The government is integrating food nutrition information scattered across various ministries to establish a standard and open it to both the private and public sectors.

On the 26th, the government announced that the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, along with industries, academia, and research institutions, have formed the "Pan-Government Public-Private Council for Building and Utilizing a Food Nutrition Information Database (DB)." The first meeting will be held this afternoon via a non-face-to-face video conference.

Establishment and Utilization of Food Nutrition Information Database. (Data = Relevant Ministries)

Until now, differences in items and labeling methods across ministries meant that even after creating a food nutrition information DB, additional DBs had to be provided for utilization. The council will establish a pan-ministerial food nutrition information standard including standard names and codes for foods and nutrients.

The government plans to process and manage the food nutrition information and provide it as an open API on the public data portal by February next year, allowing anyone to use it. An open API is an interface that provides data processed into forms needed for web or application programs.

The government expects that the standardized food nutrition information database can be utilized in private and public sectors such as school meal systems and public health center mobile healthcare.

A government official stated, "We will continuously discover food nutrition information from the demanders' perspective to support the public in forming healthy eating habits based on data," adding, "We will create an industrial environment where new added value can be generated, such as in food tech and non-face-to-face health management services."

Cases of Utilizing Food Nutrition Information. (Source: Relevant Ministries)

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