[Clenbuterol poisoning. Clinical and analytical data on an outbreak in Móstoles, Madrid].

Objective: To report the clinical manifestations and analytical findings in an epidemic outbreak of acute food poisoning with clenbuterol.

Materials And Methods: The clinical manifestations, physical examination findings and results of complementary tests are reported of fifteen patients performed by veal liver contaminated with clenbuterol. The clinical course of patients at 72 hours is reported.

["Nutrition": a program to facilitate the calculations of the composition of menus and diets].

The methodology used to build a software program to compute the nutrient composition of menus and diets is discussed. Topics as the variability of food composition, the scarcity of local food composition data, the bias that may be incurred in nutrient data of food consumption studies are extensively discussed and also the possible solution through the software program. All of these topics must be taken into account in epidemiological studies as well as in computing diet composition.

[Food composition tables: a practical appraisal].

We have revised the most common food composition tables published in Spain, France, Germany, England and the United States of America. In this article we have collected information concerning the points that may describe the size, format, numbers of items and numbers of nutrients in each table, so it can help professionals to know which of them may suit his needs properly.