MenuTrinfo LLC is honored and excited to be accepted for a technical poster presentation at the 36th annual National Nutrient Databank Conference (NNDC).   This conference brings the leading nutritional data experts of the USDA together with cutting-edge researchers in nutritional science from academia.  The NNDC alternates each year between a one-day summary of ongoing activities and a week-long deep dive on topics.  This year’s schedule has over thirty sessions delivered by even more presenters.   An auxiliary technical poster session allows additional subjects and research areas to be delivered as a side attraction to the main conference.

As our core technology is based on the USDA Nutritional Database for Standard Reference (version 24), we value close ties to the USDA.  We attended the 34th NNDC in 2010 (the year of our inception).  As the first commercial database consumer in memory ever to attend an NNDC, MenuTrinfo was warmly welcomed.    The deep technical immersion proved invaluable in our early days. For their part, the USDA employees were thrilled to see another channel for their hard work to reach the hands of consumers (aka taxpayers).  Cooperation with USDA personnel has certainly smoothed out some technical challenges over the last two years.

This year’s NNDC is the week-long form around the theme “Empowering Consumers through Advances in Food Composition” and MenuTrinfo is eagerly looking forward to a return visit! Many of the planned tracks are of direct benefit to MenuTrinfo’s goal of accuracy and integrity in the reports we bring to our customers.

Not only do we plan to reinforce and extend our core competencies in nutritional data management, we’ve been accepted to present a technical poster.  The title of that presentation is “Standard Reference Database: Empowering Consumers via Legislation”.   We’ll present how we go from the 2010 Health Care Act to actual results in a publicly funded project in Pima County, Arizona.  Our technology is helping fight obesity and promote healthy restaurant menus. Later this week there will be a press announcement concerning that project.

For more information about the conference, visit http://www.nutrientdataconf.org/