Being a food open data “prosumer” - FoodTrade Menu winner of Food Open Data Challenge | Nesta

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-23

Summary:

"Earlier in the week we announced the Winner of the Food Open Data Challenge as a new product called FoodTrade Menu. This has been developed by the team behind FoodTrade - Ed Dowding, Therese Stowell and Lyndsey Knight. The tool is used by restaurants and caterers to help them comply with new regulations on transparency of allergens in their food. From December 2014 these food businesses need to flag where food they sell contains one or more of 14 allergens such as gluten, crustaceans and peanuts. Using a combination of data provided by the food business, government open data and data from food producers, FoodTrade Menu produces a tailored menu for businesses which flag these allergens in their food to their customers.  FoodTrade have won the competition due to the product’s innovative combination of using government open data, private sector data feeds and their commitments to making data open themselves. This model - being a prosumer (producer and consumer) of open data - is likely to be a model for many companies wanting to use open data. FoodTrade recognise that the work that they are undertaking could have uses for others in the food ecosystem which is part of their motivation to commit in the longer term to making some of their data available as open data. We’re hopeful that part of the open data released by the FoodTrade team will, in time, include aggregated and anonymised information on the retailers and producers used by specific restaurants and food businesses - starting to shed light on the supply chain. In addition, the team were able to engage with the Food Standards Agency who were producing the open data which they incorporate in the product and were able to give feedback on the way in which the open data was being made available ..."

Link:

http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/being-food-open-data-prosumer-foodtrade-menu-winner-food-open-data-challenge

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oa.new oa.comment oa.awards oa.uk oa.legislation oa.food_safety oa.psi oa.government oa.industries ru.sparc15 oa.data

Date tagged:

02/23/2015, 12:18

Date published:

02/23/2015, 10:20