Data on consumption and eating habits from INCA 3

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CNIB studies are one of the essential tools for risk assessment. Indeed, they provide at some point a photograph of the eating habits of the population in metropolitan France. Combined with the Anses databases on food composition and contamination, these data allow us to estimate the intakes of beneficial substances in our diet (vitamins, essential fatty acids,...) and exposures, i.e. ingested doses, to potentially harmful substances that may be present in food (heavy metals, pesticide residues, toxins, etc.).
The INCA 3 study, conducted in 2014-2015, incorporated many new features and improvements in a harmonised procedure at European level: for example, the inclusion of children under 3 years of age, the study of food consumption from organic farming or personal production, and a more accurate food description system. This methodological change makes it impossible to study precisely the changes in food consumption, energy and nutritional intakes between the INCA2 and INCA3 studies.
The INCA3 data available mainly provides information on food intakes, nutritional intakes, food preparation and preservation habits, physical activity and sedentary levels, and anthropometric data for the population aged 0 to 79 in metropolitan France. The 11 data tables are accompanied by documents essential for their proper use:
— A user manual describing the methodology of the study and the data posted online, specifying the rules of use and precautions for the use of the data and the references to be cited for any written and oral publication of results resulting from the INCA3 study;
— A nomenclature detailing all the foods consumed in the study;
— A thesaurus that explains the characteristics used to describe these foods.
More information at www.anses.fr