Food extrapolations data formats

Food extrapolations (or read-across food translations) can be used to specify whether data (e.g, occurrence data) on a food for which this is missing (a data poor food) may be extrapolated from another food for which data is available (read-across food).

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Food extrapolations

Food extrapolations are simply specified as combinations of two food codes. One code for the food for the data poor food, and one for the data rich food (or read-across food).

Table aliases: ReadAcrossFoodTranslations, ReadAcrossFoodTranslation, ReadAcrossTranslations, ReadAcrossTranslation, FoodExtrapolations, FoodExtrapolation.

Table 67 Table definition for Food extrapolations.
Name Type Description Aliases Required

DataPoorFood

AlphaNumeric(50)

The code of the data poor food. I.e., the food for which missing data is allowed to be extrapolated.

IdFoodDataPoor, FoodDataPoor, idFromFood, FromFoodId, FromFood, FoodFrom, Food, IdFood

Yes

CodeDataRichFood

AlphaNumeric(50)

The code of the read-across food (or data rich food). I.e., the food from which data is used for extrapolation.

IdFoodDataRich, FoodDataRich, IdFoodReadAcross, FoodReadAcross, IdReadAcrossFood, ReadAcrossFood, idToFood, ToFoodId, ToFood, FoodTo

Yes