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Food categories

Labels

Industry labels

Public & Independent labels

The Netherlands know various labels, which can be classified into different varieties:

Locally Sourced Labels

Labels that certify the production location of products.

Dutch Nutrition Labels

Labels that certify the nutritional value of products.

Dutch Production Process Labels

Labels that certify the production process of food products.

Dutch Fair Labour Labels

Labels that certify that workmen producing products and/or ingredients have been fairly treated.

Dutch Ingredient Labels

Religious labels

Not sure whether the distinction on religion is relevant.

Laws

Traffic light systems and others

Food Scandals

Consumer Organisations

National food companies

Independant brands

Distributor brands

Supermarket chains

Geographic food origins databases

Local databases of interest

Open Food Facts like websites and apps

Translations

https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/nl

Communities we can reach out to

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

Local App Stores

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#Netherlands

Local OFF contributor missions

Open Products Facts

Object_donation_websites#Netherlands

Past and present Dutch issues on GitHub

Data Completion statistics

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

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 Dutch: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#Dutch

Get in touch

Slack channel

#be

Slack channel

#nl