Country Support - Belgium

Food categories

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

Laws

• Food_additives#Belgium
• Dates_on_the_products#Belgium

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#Belgium

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

Translations

• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/fr
• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/nl
• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/nl-be

Communities we can reach out to

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

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#Belgium

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#Belgium

Eco-Score adaptation

• Eco-score_labels_-_en#Belgium

Past and present Belgium issues on GitHub

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

Data Completion statistics

You can see Data Completion statistics for Belgium at: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Dashboard/Belgium

Get in touch

Slack channel #belgium

Forum tag