Camel Natural Flavour 20: version 3
Saved 2026-09-12 14:13 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full v2 review of the article behind EAN-8 42136996. This is a barcode with one photograph, no catalogue record and a name that no current source confirms, and the leased entry handled that honestly; the review keeps its caution and adds evidence rather than overturning it. The photograph was read at full size, 6000 by 8000 pixels, and confirms what the entry said: a French standardised pack showing the warning face only, with the brand face, the variant name and the barcode itself all absent. That reading now also yields four printed claims that were not recorded before, the combined health warning Fumer peut tuer l'enfant que vous attendez, the statutory Tabac info service panel with the 3989 quitline, the Triman éléments d'emballage bac de tri sorting mark and the EU filtre contenant du plastique marking, and the French market row now cites the photograph itself rather than the Open Food Facts record. The French homologated price list of 1 January 2026 was re-read in full, which sharpened the entry's caveat into a checked fact and corrected its count: the list carries thirteen Camel cigarette lines in packs of twenty under JTI, sans filtre, Black, Blue, Essential, Essential 100's, Essential Blue, Filters in rigid and soft packs, Filters 100's, Shift, Shift Breeze, Fresh and Fresh 100's, all at 13,00 EUR, together with XL and XXL packs of twenty-five and thirty, and the string Natural Flavour does not appear anywhere in the document. The entry had said eleven lines. The prefix reading was re-checked against GS1's own published table and kept at 421, GS1 Germany, with a new gap recording that the lookup reports this barcode's prefix as 000, United States and Canada, because it reads the zero-padded fourteen-digit form; GS1 reserves 0000001 to 0000099 unused precisely to avoid that collision, so the lookup's gs1 block should not be used for eight-digit codes. The Specifications table was rewritten with the full twelve-column header the parser requires. Unresolved and recorded in research_gaps: the variant name, which rests on a 2009 contributor capture and an EAN dictionary and was never read from a pack; whether the barcode was renamed into one of the current Camel lines or retired, which needs a source printing the barcode beside a name; the lookup's GTIN-8 prefix reading; the absence of any retailer listing or price entry printing this barcode; and company/japan-tobacco-international still stating no gs1_prefixes. No entities needed creating.. This is the current version.
Source of v3
# Camel Natural Flavour 20 <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 00000042136996
name: Camel Natural Flavour 20
default_observation: fr-pack-2024
summary: The twenty-cigarette Camel pack carried by EAN-8 barcode 42136996, documented under that name since 2009.
brand: brand/camel
category: category/10000185
country_of_sale: FR
piece_count: 20
last_seen: 2024-03-09
last_seen_note: The only photograph filed under this barcode was uploaded on 2024-03-09; no price list or retailer prints the barcode, so no status is asserted.
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/japan-tobacco-international | global, -US | 1999 | | | sourced | ^wikicamel | Japan Tobacco International holds the rights to Camel outside the United States from 1999; inside the United States the brand stays with R. J. Reynolds |
| gs1_prefix_owner | company/japan-tobacco-international | | | | | derived | ^gs1org | A GTIN-8 opens with the prefix of a national GS1 organisation: here 421, inside the 400-440 block GS1 issues to GS1 Germany. No public lookup names the licensee, so this targets the brand owner outside the US |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------ | ----- |
| FR | printed | ^packphoto | Read on the only photograph filed under this barcode: a French standardised pack carrying the combined health warning "Fumer peut tuer l'enfant que vous attendez", the statutory Tabac info service 3989 panel and the Triman sorting mark. The brand face is not shown | 2024-03-09 | | | |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Camel natural flavor 20 | search | en | | |
| Camel Natural Flavour Brown | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier |
| ------------------ | ----- | ---------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ---------- | --------- |
| Cigarettes in pack | 20 | cigarettes | ^oldbcp | The 2009 entry gave the container as "Package 20 pcs" | fr-pack-2024 | | 20 | | known | normalized | exact |
| Barcode symbology | EAN-8 | | ^ean8 | Eight-digit symbology introduced for packages too small for an EAN-13, cigarette packs among them; stored here padded to 14 digits | fr-pack-2024 | | | | known | normalized | exact |
| GS1 prefix | 421 | | ^gs1org | GS1 lists 400-440 as GS1 Germany, and reserves 0000001 to 0000099 unused to avoid collision with GTIN-8, so an eight-digit code is read on its own digits | fr-pack-2024 | | | | known | normalized | exact |
<!--/specifications-->
## Observations <!--observations-->
| id | label | kind | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed | status | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source | note | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| fr-pack-2024 | French standardised pack, warning face only | label | FR | fr | | | 2024-03-09 | supported | | | | ^packphoto | The only photograph filed under this barcode, 6000 by 8000 pixels. It shows the warning face alone, so the brand face, the variant name and the barcode itself are not evidenced by it | | | 20 | | |
<!--/observations-->
## Label claims <!--claims-->
| observation | claim | kind | source | note |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------ | ----- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| fr-pack-2024 | Fumer peut tuer l'enfant que vous attendez | label | ^packphoto | The French combined health warning, printed with its photograph |
| fr-pack-2024 | Tabac info service 3989 | label | ^packphoto | The statutory French quitline panel, marked service gratuit plus prix appel |
| fr-pack-2024 | Éléments d'emballage, bac de tri | label | ^packphoto | The French Triman Info-tri sorting mark |
| fr-pack-2024 | Filtre contenant du plastique | label | ^packphoto | The EU single-use plastic marking, printed beside the litter pictograms |
<!--/claims-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| fr-pack-2024 | identity | unknown | The brand face was never photographed, so the variant name rests on the 2009 Barcodepedia capture and an EAN dictionary entry, not on any pack read here | ^packphoto |
| | identity | disputed | The French homologated price list of 1 January 2026 carries thirteen Camel cigarette lines in packs of twenty under JTI, among them Camel Essential at 13,00 EUR, plus XL and XXL sizes, and no Camel Natural Flavour at all. Whether this barcode was renamed into one of them or retired needs a source printing the barcode beside a name, and none was found | ^jorf2026 |
| | identity | disputed | The lookup reports this barcode's GS1 prefix as 000, United States and Canada, because it reads the zero-padded fourteen-digit form. GS1's own table gives 400-440 to GS1 Germany and reserves 0000001 to 0000099 to avoid collision with GTIN-8, so the prefix here is 421 and the lookup's block should not be used for eight-digit codes | ^gs1org |
| | markets | unknown | No retailer listing or price entry printing this barcode was found, so the French market rests entirely on the statutory marks printed on the photographed pack | ^packphoto |
| | relationships | stale | company/japan-tobacco-international states no gs1_prefixes; a review pass cannot amend an existing company stub, so prefix 421 is recorded only on the gs1_prefix_owner row here | ^gs1org |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-12
note: Full evidence review of a barcode with one photograph and no catalogue record. The photograph was read at full size and confirms the entry: a French standardised pack showing the warning face only, which now also yields four printed claims, the combined warning, the Tabac info service panel, the Triman sorting mark and the single-use plastic marking. The French price list was re-read in full, which sharpened the entry's caveat into a fact: thirteen Camel lines in packs of twenty are listed on 1 January 2026 and Natural Flavour is not among them. The prefix reading was re-checked against GS1's own table and kept at 421, GS1 Germany, with a gap recording that the lookup misreads zero-padded GTIN-8 codes as United States and Canada.
<!--/research-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Camel Natural Flavour 20 - EAN-8 42136996
description: The 20-cigarette Camel pack behind EAN-8 barcode 42136996, with the evidence for its name, its French market and what the current French price list does and does not list.
<!--/meta-->
## Images <!--images-->
| asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | observation |
| ------------------ | ----- | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ |
| front-e59f2eaf.jpg | front | open-food-facts | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0000042136996 | 2026-09-11 | Uploaded 2024-03-09; the warning face of a French pack | fr-pack-2024 |
<!--/images-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| oldbcp | https://web.archive.org/web/20091101042255/http://en.barcodepedia.com/42136996/camel-natural-flavor-20 | Barcodepedia (2009 capture): 42136996 - Camel natural flavor 20 | 2026-09-11 | Internet Archive | other | | | | | | |
| off | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0000042136996 | Open Food Facts: product 0000042136996, French pack photograph uploaded 2024-03-09 | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | odbl | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| packphoto | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/004/213/6996/front_fr.4.full.jpg | Open Food Facts: the warning face of the French pack, uploaded 2024-03-09 | 2026-09-12 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| barcodelist | https://barcode-list.com/barcode/EN/barcode-42136996/Search.htm | barcode-list.com: barcode 42136996 - CAMEL NATURAL FLAVOUR BROWN | 2026-09-11 | barcode-list.com | other | | | | | | |
| jorf2026 | https://www.douane.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/2025-12/12/Maquette%20JORF%201er%20janvier%202026_0.pdf | Douane francaise: prix homologues des tabacs au 1er janvier 2026 (JORF) | 2026-09-12 | Douane francaise | registry | | | | | | |
| wikicamel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_(cigarette) | Wikipedia: Camel (cigarette) | 2026-09-12 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| ean8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAN-8 | Wikipedia: EAN-8 | 2026-09-11 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| gs1org | https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/company-prefix | GS1: GS1 Company Prefix, list of prefixes by GS1 member organisation | 2026-09-12 | GS1 | registry | | | | | | |
| gleif-jti | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter%5Bentity.legalName%5D=JT%20International%20SA | GLEIF LEI record: JT INTERNATIONAL SA, 5493005KSGBD51CD7K33 | 2026-09-11 | GLEIF | registry | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
This page is about the article carried by barcode 42136996, an EAN-8. That short symbology exists for packages on which a full EAN-13 will not fit, cigarette packs being the textbook case, and a GTIN-8 opens with the prefix of a national GS1 organisation.[^ean8] Here the prefix is 421, inside the 400-440 block GS1 issues to GS1 Germany; GS1's own table also reserves 0000001 to 0000099 unused, precisely to avoid collision with eight-digit codes.[^gs1org]
Two records name the article. The 2006-2013 Barcodepedia held it in 2009 as "Camel natural flavor 20", produced in Germany by an unknown producer, container "Package 20 pcs", contents tobacco; that page is a dated contributor transcription of a pack and is cited here for identity only.[^oldbcp] An EAN dictionary entered by a scanner user records the same barcode as CAMEL NATURAL FLAVOUR BROWN, in British spelling and with a shade word the old page does not contain, so it is not an echo of it.[^barcodelist] Camel has belonged to Japan Tobacco International outside the United States since 1999, and to R. J. Reynolds inside it.[^wikicamel]
The only photograph filed under the barcode, uploaded in March 2024, shows the warning face of a French standardised pack: the combined health warning, the Tabac info service panel with the 3989 quitline, the Triman "éléments d'emballage, bac de tri" mark and the "filtre contenant du plastique" marking are all French or EU legal marks, so the pack was sold in France.[^packphoto] The brand face was not photographed, so the picture fixes the market and the product type without confirming which Camel variant the barcode now carries. The name here is the name the barcode is documented under, not one read off the 2024 pack.
A caution for anyone extending this page: the French homologated price list of 1 January 2026 lists thirteen Camel cigarette lines in packs of twenty under JTI, among them Camel Essential, Camel Filters, Camel Blue, Camel Black, Camel Shift and Camel Fresh, all at 13,00 EUR, together with XL and XXL packs of twenty-five and thirty, and no Camel "Natural Flavour" at all.[^jorf2026] Whether this barcode was renamed into one of those lines or retired needs a source that prints the barcode beside the name; none was found.
<!--/about-->