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Food categories

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

Labels

Public & Independent labels

• Sin TACC (No wheat, oats, rye, barley) - Wikidata Item - Official Website
• Orgánico Argentina (Organic products) - Wikidata Item - Official Website

Laws

• https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/User:Tacinte#Argentina_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling
• Food_additives#Argentina
• Dates_on_the_products#Argentina

Food Scandals

• 1991: Powdered milk in bad shape, with traces of Chernobyl contamination. Political Corruption

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#Argentina

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

Supermarket chains

• Coto
• La Anónima
• La Genovesa
• Todo
• Cooperativa Obrera
• Walmart
• Disco
• Jumbo
• Carrefour
• Carrefour Express
• Carrefour Market
• Carrefour MAXI
• Changomás
• Vea
• Dia

Translations

Help translate to Spanish

Communities we can reach out to

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

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#Argentina

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#Argentina

Stats

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

Get in touch

Slack channel #argentina