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Food categories

• You can help completing India categories and labels for the Eco-Score (not supported yet)

Labels

Industry labels

• List them here

Public & Independent labels

• Green dot India
• Brown dot India

Religious labels

• List them here

Laws

• Food_additives#India
• Dates_on_the_products#India

Traffic light systems and others

• List them here

Food Scandals

• List them here

Consumer Organisations

• Consumer_associations#India
• List them here

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

Supermarket chains

• Reliance SMART, Fresh
• More Supermarket
• Spar
• DMart
• Spencer's Retail
• Star Bazaar
• Nature’s Basket
• BigBasket

Geographic food origins databases

• FSSAI packager code system (licence number)
• List them here

Local databases of interest

• List them here
• Help add the local egg traceability system: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#India

Open Food Facts like websites and apps

• List them here

Translations

• Assamese: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/as
• Gujarati: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/gu-IN
• Hindi: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/hi
• Kannada: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/kn
• Malayalam: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/ml-IN
• Marathi: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/mr
• Punjabi: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/pa-IN
• Sanskrit: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/sa
• Santali: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/sat
• Tamil: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/ta
• Telugu: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/te
• Urdu: https://crowdin.com/project/openfoodfacts/ur-IN

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#India

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#India

Past and present India issues on GitHub

• 🇮🇳 India issues on the Backend/Web/API (GitHub)
• 🇮🇳 India issues on the Mobile App (GitHub)

Stats

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

Get in touch

Slack channel #india

Forum tag #india