I heard about it quite a long time ago but I didn't try to participate until yesterday and the least I can say is that the main developer has integrated a lot of cool features to compare products components and to integrate maps, pictures...
It's really easy to add a product in this free #database: just scan the bar-code with the smartphone app or enter it by hand and take a picture of the product, then check that the OCR has done a good job to extract the ingredient list.
Everything is you send will be #opensource (#cc-by-sa for the pictures and #odbl for the content).
The ingredient list is automatically parsed to extract known codes and product and add informations about them.
And when these pieces of date are used on a map this gives : http://cestfabriquepresdechezvous.info/ Location of where are made the products.
Just try it ! And let's make the biggest and only free database on food products !
#consumption #products #food #collaborative #project