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Food categories

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

Labels

Public & Independent labels

• Health Canada’s Food Labelling Regulations: https://gs1ca.org/food-labelling-requirement/
• Food labels, food labelling requirements, report a concern and access technical documents for industry: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/health/food-labels.html
• Directory of supplemented food facts table formats: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/supplemented-foods/technical-documents/directory-supplemented-food-facts-table-formats.html

Traceability Codes and Origins db

• Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Canada
• Geographic food origins databases

Product Reports

• ProductReports#Canada

Laws

• Food_additives#Canada
• Dates_on_the_products#Canada
• User:Tacinte#Canadian_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling

Traffic light systems and others

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/nutrition-labelling/front-package.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/food-nutrition/focus-facts-how-use-serving-size-daily-value.html

Consumer Organisations

• Consumer_associations#Canada

Local databases of interest

• Canadian Nutrient File (CNF): https://aliments-nutrition.canada.ca/cnf-fce/
• Food Price Data Hub: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/topics-start/food-price

Open Food Facts like websites and apps

https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

Translations

• French
• English

Communities we can reach out to

• Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
• Meetups
• Industry events
• Add your national coeliac/gluten non profit association
• Add your national Vegan non profit association
• Add your national Vegetarian non profit association
• Add your national Lactose patients non profit association

Local OFF contributor missions

• On the local web page: https://off.mieuxchoisir.org/

Consumer trends and behaviours

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/sector/consumer-trends-and-behaviours

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/international-trade/market-intelligence/reports/sector-trend-analysis-packaged-food-trends-canada

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#Canada

Past and present Canada issues on GitHub

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

Data Completion statistics

• Data Completion statistics for Canada: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Dashboard/Canada
• Progressboard for Canada: Progressboard/Canada
• Evolution of the number of products at: https://ca.openfoodfacts.org/product-count
• Ingredients to be completed: https://ca.openfoodfacts.org/state/en:ingredients-to-be-completed/state/en:ingredients-photo-selected/popularity/top-1000-ca-scans-2023&nocache=1
• List of data quality errors: https://ca.openfoodfacts.org/data-quality-errors

Follow Open Food Facts on social media

• Open Food Facts has created presence on social media over the years in many languages. We now have the capacity to produce content in English and French, but we have a harder time translating and posting to all accounts. You can help by joining the marketing channel on Slack, and proposing to help for your language/country. Please get in touch with the permanent team before anything.
• Follow Open Food Facts social media accounts for Canada: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#Canada

Get in touch

Slack channel #canada