Food Traceability Codes/EU Food establishments

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A food establishment is a facility / an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, sells and/or provides food.

The goal of this project is to establish a list of food establishments, to gather data about those establishments, to map food products to food establishments (using identifying codes and/or company names and street addresses), to use the data in the Open Food Facts applications and to enable other applications.

Food establishments codes and sources

Codes listed of food products labels includes:

Aggregated list of food establishments

How to process official lists

  • Use of french Agriculture Ministry files (hosted at https://github.com/openfoodfacts/eu-food-data/blob/master/fr/urls-fr.txt) to extract list of certification (CE Approval number).
  • Definition of a common structure for the table, such as:
    • Type (name of category used by administration, ie name of the list)
    • Libelle autorisation/Approval description (for fish processing facilities)
    • Numero de departement/Department number
    • Numero agrement/Approval number
    • SIRET/Local Number
    • Processus/Process (for fish processing facilities)
    • Raison Sociale/Name
    • Adresse/Adress
    • Code Postal/Postal Code
    • Commune/Town
    • Espece/Species (for wild games or fish processing facilities)
  • Concatenation of file to obtain a list of all approved processes
  • Pivot table to create the list of all approved companies

IMPORTANT NOTE: An approval number is unique.A company can have several approved processes, but they will all have the same approval number.

  • Update list with other official lists, such as derogatory approvals, ...

France

To do

Use of the food establishments list inside Open Food Facts

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