I would find it very desirable and welcome if the nutritional information AND pack sizes of ALL products available on Migipedia, especially the "new products", were reliably listed. This would be particularly useful for comparisons with existing MIGROS products (e.g. Blévita / yoghurt / Farmer / Güezi varieties) and many other competitor products (e.g. with regard to sugar / salt content) - all the more so as the information on "Le Shop" is often incomplete.
Quote: Unfortunately, the information is not yet available for all products. However, we are endeavoring to provide as much information as possible. End quote.
Of course, it would be nice if the specific information on the products, especially the new ones, were immediately available.
You can't rely on the list of ingredients and nutritional information on Migipedia because the following note appears below them: "Only the product information on the packaging on the shelf is binding".
Subsequently, articles are replaced because the product, the recipe or the supplier changes, but the information is not adjusted and the comments from the previous article are not deleted. As a result, the reader receives incorrect information, either from Migipedia or from us, the users, because the documentation was not entered for the new product but for the previous one. Migipedia has been aware of the problem for some time, but is struggling to find a solution.
I can well imagine that it will take time to implement all the data, especially as this information is not stored in a database. The products are supplied by different companies and industries and each of these companies has its own documentation philosophy. I can also imagine that the nutritional information and the list of ingredients still have to be translated into the national languages, as this information is published in English. There are also products "from the region" that are only labeled in one language.
As I have recorded a lot of product data, I know the effort involved in this work, especially if the data is not available electronically.
The nutritional information is dealt with in the "Ordinance of the FDHA on the Labeling and Promotion of Foodstuffs 817.022.21" in Section 11: "Nutritional Labeling", Art 22-29. Among others, it states in:
Art. 23 Principle 1 Nutrition labeling is voluntary. Article 29i paragraph 4 and the provisions of the FDHA Ordinance of November 23, 2005 on Special Foodstuffs remain reserved. 2 If reference is made to the particular nutritional properties of a foodstuff on the packaging, the wrapping, the label or in the advertising, nutrition labeling is mandatory, with the exception of cross-product advertising campaigns. Information that is mandatory, such as "sweetened" for fruit juices, does not count as a reference to special nutritional properties.
Personally, I rarely look at the information, unfortunately not even at the consumption data. Maybe because it used to be a "must".
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your detailed and interesting answer - you seem to know your way around professionally :)!
Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to me and so I actually thought that recording the nutritional information was a bit too easy - or rather that aspects of different "documentation philosophies", translation requirements in different languages, "EDI regulations" etc. were not even taken into account. languages, "EDI regulations" etc. were not even taken into account. Against the background you have now explained, it is rather remarkable in this case that the exact details are already reliably available on Migipedia for a number of products (quite a few of these product descriptions were made by you-:)...) and the quote from Daniel also shows that the matter is in progress. May I ask - out of genuine interest and without expecting detailed information - what your "previous" activity was?
With kind regards and many thanks again for your efforts "maripac"
You can find a little about me in my profile. In addition to my studies (history, Turkology), I worked in the hotel industry until 1972. Then I switched to IT (then EDP) for a German car manufacturer, where I spent the last few years as a trouble shooter in Europe. From 1982 I was a database specialist in a cantonal computer center. As a self-employed computer scientist, I also gave courses at IBM and lectures at the EPFL from 1993. En passant, I also trained as a food inspector.
If you would like to know more, please send an e-mail to Sergio or Daniel, they can give you my e-mail address.
Thank you for your information; that really is a highly respectable diversity, which, as is now all the clearer against this background, is revealed in many of your product descriptions and (forum) contributions. It is wonderful and of course a great enrichment for this platform that and how you contribute your broad knowledge practically every day in such a readable way. I also wish you a good evening - you can look back today on the first, hopefully pleasantly spent week in your new year of life.
