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Paul Finglas

Research Leader

Contact Details:

Institute of Food Research,
Norwich Research Park,
Colney, Norwich,
NR4 7UA
UK
paul.finglas@ifr.ac.uk

Research interests

1. EuroFIR Director - responsible for the overall delivery of this NoE to the Commission including further development and exploitation of specific outputs including databank systems and software to deliver food composition information (including labelling) to a variety of users including industry, consumers and regulators.

2. Development and management of the UK food composition database and related activities in close co-operation with the food standards agency and other stakeholders.

3. To understand the mechanisms by which natural dietary folates and folic acid, consumed as part of the diet, contribute to the maintenance and promotion of health.  To provide the evidence to underpin re-evaluation of folate requirements, and dietary advice to promote optimal health and aging.

Selected Publications

Wright A. J. A., Dainty J. R., Finglas P. M. (2007)
Folic acid metabolism in humans revisited: potential implications for proposed mandatory folic acid fortification in the UK
British Journal of Nutrition 98 667-675
DOI:10.1017/S0007114507777140

Recent Publications

Bell S., Pakkala H., Finglas P. M. (2013)
Towards a European Food Composition Data Interchange Platform
International Journal for Vitamin & Nutrition Research 82 (3) 1-7
DOI:DOI 10.1024/0300 – 9831/XXX
Finglas P. M., Kroon P. (2013)
£5M science project to boost small firms
Food Manufacture.co.uk 1 1
Roe M., Finglas P. M. (2013)
UK Food Composition Data – Updating the McCance and Widdowson Integrated Dataset
Journal of the Association of Public Analysts (Online) http://www.apajournal.org.uk/2012_0069-0070.pdf 2012 40 69-70 Roe et al -69
Roe M., Pinchen H., Church S., Elahi S., Walker M., Farron-Wilson M., Buttriss J., Finglas P. (2013)
Trans fatty acids in a range of UK processed foods
Food Chemistry 140 (3 ) 427-431
DOI:dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.08.067
King M. J., Brima E. I., Dainty J. R., Barrett D. A., Wright A. J., Willis G., Finglas P. M. (2012)
Estimation of the folate apparent volume of distribution in humans
Journal of Nutrition 142 389-395
Roe M. A., Finglas P. M. (2012)
Assessing and improving the quality of vitamin data in food composition databases
Food and Nutrition Research 56 5654
Roe M., Pinchen H., Church S., Elahi S., Walker M., Farron-Wilson M., Buttriss J., Finglas P. M. (2012)
Trans fatty acids in a range of UK processed foods
Food Chemistry 2012 j.foodchem.2012.08.067
DOI:dx.doi.org/10.1016/
Verhagen H., Andersen R., Antoine J. M., Finglas P., Hoekstra J., Kardinaal A., Nordmann H., Pekcan G., Pentieva K., Sanders T., van den Berg H., van Kranen H., Marino Chiodini A. (2012)
Application of the BRAFO tiered approach for benefit-risk assessment to case studies on dietary interventions
Food and Chemical Toxicology 50 S710-S723
Bell S., Colombani P. C., Pakkala H., Christensen T., Moller A., Finglas P. M. (2011)
Food composition data: Identifying new uses, approaching new users
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 24 (4-5) 727-731 S1
DOI:10.1016/j.jfca.2011.03.001
Black L., Moller A., Roe M., Walton J., Flynn A., Finglas P., Kiely M. (2011)
Development of an on-line Irish food composition database for nutrients
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 24 (7) 1017-1023
DOI:10.1016/j.jfca.2011.01.015
Castanheira I., Matos A. S., Coelho I., Gueifao S., Roe M., Calhau M. A., Finglas P. (2011)
Six Sigma scale as a quality criterion for aggregation of food property measures
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 24 1153-1159

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