The data quality reports from My Product Manager show that not completing or incorrectly filling in the ingredient statement are two of the most common and made mistakes.
How can you see if your products contain these errors?
Check in the data quality report, which you can find in My Product Manager at ‘My reports’, if there are products with the error: ‘If isTradeItemAConsumerUnit is equal to 'True' and the value of gpcCategoryCode equals one of the values in the list IngredientsGPCCodeList, then ingredientStatement SHALL NOT be empty’ or any other error or warning related to the ingredient (statement).
If so, then follow the below steps to fill in the ingredient statement in a correct manner. This way, the product sheets will be visible to data recipients, even after the re-run.
How do you solve an error or warning?
This depends on through which way you register or edit your product sheets in My Product Manager.
Web interface My Product Manager
STEP 1
Log into the web interface of My Product Manager with your login credentials and go to ‘My products’.
STEP 2
Use the search function and enter the description, GTIN or brand of the product. To open the product sheet, click underneath ‘GTIN’ on the 14-digit GTIN of the product.
Next, click on ‘Edit data’ to edit the product sheet.
STEP 4
Click then on ‘Add new’ to enable the field for the ingredient statement. If the fields are already available, then proceed to the next step to fill in the ingredient statement correctly.
STEP 5
Select in the field ‘Language’ the language in which you will enter the ingredient statement. Fill in the field ‘Ingredient statement’ as mentioned on the label.
- The ingredient statement needs to be preceded by the combination of the word ‘Ingredients’ and punctuation ‘:’ (Ingredients:). There isn’t an ingredient statement, but there are allergens mentioned on the label? Then the ingredient statement needs to be preceded by the combination of the word ‘Contains’ and the punctuation ‘:’ (Contains:).
- Are there allergens mentioned in the ingredient statement? Then you fill those in in capital letters.
- Repeat this step for each language required by law, mentioned on the label.
- Languages required by law for the Belgian market: Dutch, French and German.
- Languages required by law for the Luxembourgish law: French, German and Luxembourgish.
STEP 6
Click on ‘Save’ or ‘Validate & Next’ to verify and validate the edit and the entire product sheet. If there are any other errors and/or warnings, then you need to resolve these as well.
STEP 7
Click on ‘validate and release’. The updated product sheet is now available to data recipients.
Trough another GS1 GDSN-datapool or a machine-to-machine-connection
STEP 1
Log into the user environment of your system and open the product sheet.
Fill in the field linked to the GS1 GDSN attribute ‘ingredientStatement’ the ingredient statement in, as mentioned on the label. Fill in the field ‘languageCode’ the language in which you’ll fill in the ingredient statement in.
- The ingredient statement needs to be preceded by the combination of the word ‘Ingredients’ and punctuation ‘:’ (Ingredients:). There isn’t an ingredient statement, but there are allergens mentioned on the label? Then the ingredient statement needs to be preceded by the combination of the word ‘Contains’ and the punctuation ‘:’ (Contains:).
- Are there allergens mentioned in the ingredient statement? Then you fill those in in capital letters.
- Repeat this step for each language required by law, mentioned on the label.
- Languages required by law for the Belgian market: Dutch, French and German.
- Languages required by law for the Luxembourgish law: French, German and Luxembourgish.
STEP 2
Make sure the edit is saved and the updated product sheet is available to data recipients by releasing or (re)publishing it to the data pool.
STEP 3
Verify after releasing or (re)publishing the CIC messages of the data recipient and if the My Product Manager data quality report does no longer contain errors and/or warnings.