Yahoo! - Business and Economy:Companies:Health:Nutrition

Alphabetical order, with additional sections for some common supplements such as Aloe Vera and anti-oxidants.

NAL list: agribusiness and food industry associations

Very large listing of agribusiness, food industry & forest industry associations on the Internet, compiled by Carol Singer of the USDA's National Agricultural Library. Listed by geographical area, including international. This new resource from the Agricultural Trade and Marketing Information Center section of NALUSDA won't win any prizes for graphic appeal, but the breadth of research that went into this document is extraordinary.

Food Manufacturer's and industry associations lists from Iowa Extn.

Reasonably long list of food manufacturers with web pages. A similar very useful list of mainly American food industry bodies is available on this site.

"Food Outlook" (FAO)

Newsletter providing "Global Information and Early Warning System" from FAO with statistics and reports on food and crop situation worldwide.

Food Products directory

Commercial food products broken down by food category. Based on sites registering themselves.

CSIRO: Dpt. Food Science and Technology

Good section on food law and safety, the food industry, and on Australian sites.

Foodshow

On-line exhibit for food products. Need to register.

FoodCom

Food and beverage industry - find people, newsletter, equipment etc.

One Globe: Agriculture and Food Industry Resources

Very good list of agricultural Internet resources, including mailing lists, usenet, univeresity departments, government, internet links.

US Agricultural Research Service

Home page, with personnel directory, links to agricultural sites etc.

AgDB: US Department of Agriculture data base

Huge range of agriculture-related data bases, information sheets, legislation, directories etc. Includes food industry, pesticides, farming etc. Listed alphabetically and has search engine.The information returned is a data base entry on the what, when and where, but has hypertext links where the resource is accessible.

FAO World Agricultural Information Center

An FAO project to make information on its agricutural and nutrition projects more widely available. There is material on the CODEX also available, as well as various papers and conference reports etc.

AgriGator:list of agricultural sites

Collection of sites and sources that provide agricultural and biological related information.

FoodNet Canada

Information network for the Canadian food industry, joint pilot project of the Food Institute of Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Agriculture Canada Electr.Information Service

Canadian agricultural information and search engine.

National Agri-Food Technology Centre (Canada)

Organisational information.

US National Integrated Pest Management Network

"An industry/university cooperative research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation, related to environmentally sound, sustainable crop production".

Fooddudes

Good list of resources related to commercial aspects of food: products, manufacturers, professional services, associations etc.

Functional Foods for Health (University of Illinois)

"Works with producers and processors of foods, dietary supplements, and ingredients to bring their combined resources to bear on the challenge of identifying, creating, and marketing safe and effective functional foods." This site offers information about the university program, announcements and news releases about conferences and a few links.

Ryerson Polytechnic: Food Security

Information on a local Toronto food security and research network, as well as food security and food policy links.

Food news releases

PR and news release site. These are food, cooking and food product related stories, some with graphics (cartoons etc.).

Food Victoria - A Whole World of Food

The Food Victoria site gives you access to "The latest information on the production of food in Victoria, Australia. You can access information on the Dairy and Stone Fruit industries, search for a company in our database, order or update your copy of A Whole World of Food CD-ROM, download Taste of Victoria newsletter".

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Food service industry

Food Service Links

Links to food service web sites.

ProVisions Online: food service directory

Searchable data base of food service industry sites on the Internet and a separate one of food and beverage industry professionals.

Foodweb

Material for foodservice professionals.

FoodNet: food service, food news

"This service enables you to search current food news and the FoodNet database." Food service and food consumer focus.

Dietetic Technicians On-line

Part of Clinical Nutrition On-line, this site has food service links, as well as offering access for lay public to ask questions of dietetic members.

Sweet Technology Food Resource Center

A major commercial food industry site from a food industry consulting company. The site features great graphic design and has lots of food, food service and cooking links, recipes and a discussion group (Food Talk) on-site.

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Functional foods

American Dietetic Association position paper on Phytochemicals and functional foods

Position paper taking a pro-diet, conservative approach.

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Specific food organisations

Meat, egg and dairy industry

Cereal and legume industry

Other specific agricultural industry

Meat-ing Place

This is a "global information hub of the red meat and poultry processing industries." Sponsored by meat and chicken processing publisher in US, (e.g. "Meat Marketing & Technology"), this page has links to meat and poultry science, industry associations and resources.

Cowtown: National Cattlemen's Beef Association

Beef and cattle raising information and promotion in the US. Includes some documents on scientific aspects. This includes the Beef Handbook, which has general Information on beef industry, and particularly regarding environmental issues (written from positive perspective).

Meat Research Corp (Australia)

Mainly organisational information, with some references as well.

British Meat On-Line

Lay and health professional nutrition information.

National Pork Producers Council

A very well designed site with lots of information for health professionals, consumers (including children) and the meat industry.

The International Dairy Federation

"an independent, non-profit association
which promotes scientific, technical and economic progress in dairying world-wide." Home page has access to the Codex Alimentarius, information about the organisation, its membership, program and events.

WhyMilk

Milk promotion and information.

DairyBiz

Well designed site with lots of material for dairy farmers and the dairy industry, plus a new section on animal nutrition.

Dairy Australia

Combined site for variety of Australian and Victorian dairy organisations, such as Australian Dairy Corporation, Dairy Research Development Corporation). the site is mainly industry information and catalogue of nutrition resources, rather than the resources themselves, but there are some on-line leaflets related to dairy re;evant topics and recipes. Also some cute cartoon illustrations featuring cows!

Dairy Farmers of Ontario

Lay information on dairy related issues, such as `milk allergy', role of calcium etc.

American Egg Board

Lots of information on egg industry, nutrition and recipes.

American Assocation of Cereal Chemists

Cereal science and technology. News, publications, membership lists, Internet links.

CropSEARCH

Indiana Center for New Crops and Plant Products, New Crop Resource Online Program.

U.S. Soyfoods Directory

"descriptions of soyfoods, the companies that make and distribute them, nutritional information, and recipes. In addition, you will find research information about the health benefits of soyfoods. We have lists of books about soyfoods and of scientists who are studying soyfoods, telephone numbers of people who can tell you more about soyfoods, and a FREE monthly email newsletter that will keep you up-to-date on the latest soyfoods information."

Wheat Foods Council

Lay and organisational information.

Salt Institute

Organisational information, background on salt industry, news etc.

Margarine on the Web

Haven't been able to connect to the site as yet.

Seafood Information Centre (US)

Lots of useful seafood links.

Canned Foods Information Service (Australia)

Organisational, environmental, nutrient and recipe information, as well as access to ordering of free pamphlets. Thoughtfully designed site from Australia.

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The Dinner Co-op: for cooks and food-lovers

Lots of links, search engine, vegetarianism etc. " Besides more than 600 of our own recipes, we have more than 2000 links to restaurants, shops, (other peoples') recipes and food information pages".

FoodLines

Very well constructed site for food lovers, rather than nutrition science. Restaurants lists, recipes, food news etc.

Mimi's Cyber Kitchen

"Here you will find everything that is currently available in the way of food-related links...from recipes to information about how to do things, from instructions on growing your own produce to the medicinal values of certain foods. "

The Food Resource

From Oregon State University. Lots of foods are listed in a long table,many of which have textual material and one or more .jpeg images. "The purpose of this information base is to provide a large collection of jpeg images of foods, other foods references, and links to related documents."

Food news releases

PR and news release site. These are food, cooking and food product related stories, some with graphics (cartoons etc.).

Sweet Technology Food Resource Center

A major commercial food industry site from a food industry consulting company. The site features great graphic design and has lots of food, food service and cooking links, recipes and a discussion group (Food Talk) on-site.

Foodworks

Offers information on food trends and the "food professional's point of view. Recipes, information on state of the art cooking equipment, cookbooks, cooking schools, restaurants and nutritional information." Colourful site which has resulted form the collaboration of a food writer and a web designer.

Search and lists of links to cooking sites on the Internet.

Woolworths

Dietary advice, cooking tips and recipes from nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, information on food ingredients, food additives and meal planning.

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