Local Communities/AustralianTeam/Country Support

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Food categories

• You can help completing Australia categories and labels for the Eco-Score

Laws

• https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/User:Tacinte#Australian_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling
• Food_additives#Australia
• Dates_on_the_products#Australia

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#Australia

National food companies

Independant brands

• List them here

Distributor brands

• List them here

Help convince local producers to share their data

🏭 Food manufacturers and retailers Yes! To enrich the database, we can count on contributors... but also on food manufacturers! Indeed, as they are the source of the data, which often means that they are able to provide good quality data, and in bigger volumes than manual individual contributions.
Help convince local producers to share their data

Communities we can reach out to

• Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
• Meetups
• Industry events

Open Prices - Access to Information requests (GDPR requests)

As part of Project:Open-Prices, we need price points for products, loads of them.

If you have a fidelity card, you can ask your data, using the GDPR (if you're in a EU country, or using other laws if you're elsewhere). https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/GDPR_request#Australia

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#Australia

Past and present Australia issues on GitHub

• Australia issues on the Backend/Web/API (GitHub)
• Australia issues on the Mobile App (GitHub)

Data Completion statistics

• You can see Data Completion statistics for Australia at: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Dashboard/Australia
• You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://au.openfoodfacts.org/product-count

Get in touch

Slack channel #australia