IHS Inc., a global source of critical information and insight, has announced the expanded relationship with IFIS (International Food Information Service) that allows IHS to host and sell the FSTA® database – a comprehensive resource of food science, technology and nutrition information. The FSTA database is now accessible via the common IHS platform that centralises access to engineering standards and technical knowledge.
Focusing on food sciences, food technology and nutrition, the team of expert scientists at IFIS evaluates, selects and summarises research published in academic journals, trade publications, books, patents, standards, conference proceedings and reports in up to 29 languages. This comprehensive work creates high quality, authoritative records of direct relevance and scientific integrity. The FSTA database currently includes more than 1.1 million records from 4,600 journals, dating from 1969 to the present day, adding more than 1,350 new records per week.
Food scientists, researchers, and engineers in industry can accelerate research and improve project outcomes by accessing the FSTA database within new IHS Knowledge Collections for food microbiology and biotechnology, food processing, food products, nutrition, and general food science as well as within the IHS Goldfire solution. In doing so, they can quickly discover relevant answers from virtually every aspect of food science, technology and nutrition. This includes all major food and beverage commodities, plus relevant pure and applied sciences, food processing, food safety (toxicology and hygiene), biotechnology, food economics, and pet foods. For instance, an engineer researching advancements in surface modification to reduce or prevent bacterial contamination can now execute a single search into FSTA® to locate the most relevant, up-to-date information and research, tailored to their specific enquiry. Through that same single search, researchers can drill into advanced definitions, expanded concepts, applications, advantages / disadvantages among more than 70 research lenses and retrieve rich, technical answers from within the FSTA and more than 110 million additional standards, technical books, patents and applied engineering documents.
