Local Communities/AustralianTeam/Country Support
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Food categories
Labels
- Help complete country-specific labels on Hunger Games: https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/dashboard/australia
Industry labels
Public & Independent labels
Religious labels
Laws
- https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/User:Tacinte#Australian_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling
- Food_additives#Australia
- Dates_on_the_products#Australia
Traffic light systems and others
Food Scandals
2018 - https://www.industry.gov.au/anti-dumping-commission/archive-cases-and-electronic-public-record-epr/488 - Imported tomatoes
2019 - https://australiandairyfarmers.com.au/mediareleasespost/lion-price-highlights-impacts-of-coles-1-per-litre-milk/ - Duopoly affecting dairy production
2020 - https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/news-and-media-releases/articles/health-star-label-misleads-consumers-with-high-ratings-for-junk-food - Health Star rating misleading
2024 - https://youtu.be/MK-mNaEsmi0 - CEO walks out of interview when asked if his practices are anticompetitive
Consumer Organisations
Consumer_associations#Australia
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/food-labelling/understanding-claims/heart-foundation-tick
National food companies
Independant brands
- List them here
Distributor brands
- List them here
🏭 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
- List them here
Geographic food origins databases
- List them here
Local databases of interest
- Help add the local egg traceability system: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Australia
Open Food Facts like websites and apps
Translations
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#Australia
Local OFF contributor missions
Open Products Facts
Past and present Australia issues on GitHub
Data Completion statistics
- You can see Data Completion statistics for Australia at: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Dashboard/Australia
- You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://au.openfoodfacts.org/product-count
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