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Food categories
Labels
- Help complete country-specific labels on Hunger Games: https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/dashboard/australia
Industry labels
Public & Independent labels
Religious labels
Laws
Traffic light systems and others
Australia uses the Health Star Rating system, created by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
Food Scandals
- 2018 - https://www.industry.gov.au/anti-dumping-commission/archive-cases-and-electronic-public-record-epr/488 - Imported tomatoes
- 2018 - https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/nestle-wipes-4-5-health-star-rating-off-flagship-milo-product-20180301-p4z295.html - Nestle/Milo removes 4.5 Health Star Rating from packaging under "as prepared" rules.
- 2019 - https://australiandairyfarmers.com.au/mediareleasespost/lion-price-highlights-impacts-of-coles-1-per-litre-milk/ - Duopoly affecting dairy production
- 2020 - https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/news-and-media-releases/articles/health-star-label-misleads-consumers-with-high-ratings-for-junk-food - Health Star rating misleading
- 2024 - https://youtu.be/MK-mNaEsmi0 - CEO walks out of interview when asked if his practices are anticompetitive
- 2024 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-14/overhaul-of-health-star-ratings-labelling-and-marketing-of-food/104217784 - mandatory health star ratings are expected to be imposed on large food manufacturers
Consumer Organisations
Consumer_associations#Australia
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/food-labelling/understanding-claims/heart-foundation-tick
National food companies
Independent brands
- List them here
Distributor brands
- List them here
🏭 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
Supermarket chains
| Company | Market Share (%) | Revenue ($m) |
| Woolworths | 38.2 | 50,353.30 |
| Coles | 29 | 38,146.20 |
| Aldi | 8.6 | 11,294.40 |
| Metcash (wholesaler, also known as IGA) | 6.7 | 8,810.60 |
| Costco | 3.5 | 4,611.80 |
| Foodworks Supermarket | 0.1 | 157.9 |
| Amazon Australia | 0.1 | 130.9 |
(Data from IBISWorld)
Woolworths and Coles are the two largest supermarkets in Australia, having a combined market share of more than 65% of the grocery market[1]. Aldi (Aldi Süd) is a recent arrival (after coming to Oz in 2001), and has managed to acquire a large market share from the Woolworths/Coles duopoly which prior to Aldi arriving was 80% market share.
Fun fact, Aldi owns Winn-Dixie in the US, who's stores look like a carbon copy of Coles stores... down to having similar "down, down" branding.
Geographic food origins databases
- List them here
Local databases of interest
- Help add the local egg traceability system: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Australia
Open Food Facts like websites and apps
Translations
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
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
Local OFF contributor missions
Open Products Facts
Past and present Australia issues on 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
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 Australia: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#Australia
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