Country Support - Belgium

Food categories

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

Labels

Laws

• Food_additives#Belgium
• Dates_on_the_products#Belgium

Food Authorities

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_safety_organisations

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

Local databases of interest

• Help add the local egg traceability system: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Belgium

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
• 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 App Stores

• Object_donation_websites#Belgium

Local OFF contributor missions

If you like to help to improve the products listed for Belgium, there are a few things you can do:

• Add more products sold in Belgium that are not yet listed. More products is always better;
• Add (latest) images so the data can be checked. Product might have changed or can not be checked againts recent images;
• Data quality - improve the quality of the products that OFF has already listed. Go through this list and repair where possible or report any issues with the Folksonomy;
• Data completeness - extract as much information as possible from products that do have images, which are not used yet. The highest priority are the top products, i.e. those that have been requested most:
  • Ingredients - these products have ingredient images selected, but the data has not yet been extracted (top 1000).
  • Nutritional values - these products have nutritional table images selected, but the data has not yet been extracted (top 1000);
  • Categories - these products have front images selected, but the category is not yet specified (top 1000);

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
• You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://be.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 Belgium: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#Belgium

Get in touch

Slack channel #belgium

Forum tag