Country Support - Mexico

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Laws

Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010, Es pecificaciones generales de etiquetado para alimentos y bebidas no alcohólicas preenvasados-Información comercial y sanitaria, publicada el 5 de abril de 2010: https://www.dof.gob.mx/2020/SEECO/NOM_051.pdf

• Food_additives#Mexico
• Dates_on_the_products#Mexico

Traffic light systems and others

• https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquetado_de_alimentos_en_M%C3%A9xico
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_labeling_in_Mexico

National food companies

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

Traceability Codes and Origins db

• Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Mexico
• Geographic food origins databases

Translations

• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/es

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#Mexico

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#Mexico

Past and present Mexico issues on GitHub

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

Stats

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

Contact

Slack channel #mexico