Dietary supplements

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/category/dietary-supplements

‘food supplements’ means foodstuffs the purpose of which is to supplement the normal diet and which are concentrated sources of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination, marketed in dose form, namely forms such as capsules, pastilles, tablets, pills and other similar forms, sachets of powder, ampoules of liquids, drop dispensing bottles, and other similar forms of liquids and powders designed to be taken in measured small unit quantities;

(source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02002L0046-20150402 ) 

Where should we store them ?

- Medicine is OPF, but it might make sense to keep supplements in OFF (We did move most of the to OPF in the past) as we can use the nutrition facts and ingredients for them, plus specific warnings/support

Help categorize them easily

• Help categorize them easily by using Hunger Games: https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/questions?country=en%3Aworld&type=category&value_tag=en%3Adietary-supplements

Doping banned dietary substances

• French list: https://www.afld.fr/webfm/basedopants2015-onlinepourdiffusionpdf
• Worldwide list http://list.wada-ama.org/fr/

To Do

• Add https://schema.org/DietarySupplement to pages that have the Dietary Supplement category

France

• We are in touch with the government "startup" to provide a dietary supplement database.

Get in touch

Slack channel #dietarysupplement