Country Support - Ireland

Laws

Irish_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#Ireland

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

Translations

• https://translate.openfoodfacts.org/project/openfoodfacts/ga-IE

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#Ireland

Past and present Ireland issues on GitHub

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

Statistics

• You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://ie.openfoodfacts.org/product-count

Get in touch

Slack channel #ireland