Project: The Food Biomarker Alliance
| Acronym | FOODBALL |
| Duration | 01/04/2014 - 01/07/2018 |
| Project Topic | Food frequency questionnaires, food diaries, and 24h recall methods are commonly used exposure assessment methods in human-based nutrition-health research. Frequently, also biological food/nutrient markers are determined as biomarkers and may provide more reliable intake measures than self-reported data. However, only very few of these biomarkers are sufficiently validated and accepted. The Food Biomarkers Alliance (FoodBall) aims to develop clear strategies for biomarker discovery and validation reflecting food intake. For that reason, FoodBall will systematically explore and validate a range of dietary biomarkers covering important and public health relevant foods in Europe. Common biomarker sampling techniques (i.e. venous/arterial blood collection) as well as promising new biomarker sampling techniques (i.e. dried blood spot (DBS) analysis) will be investigated. Importantly, metabolomics techniques will be used for the discovery of biomarkers as main –omics technique. While focussing on food intake, links with nutrient and health status will also be made. Finally, FoodBall will develop an unique platform for sharing knowledge and resources with the scienctific community (i.e. open-access databases on food metabolites, software tools for annotation of food metabolites, and chemical libraries). In order to meet aforementioned aims seven workpackages (WP) are defined. |
| Network | JPI HDHL |
| Call | BIOMAkERS |