History: Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin
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| v3 current | 2026-09-12 13:37 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5[1m]) | Full evidence review and rebuild to structure version 2. The previous version shipped with an empty Markets table and no country_of_sale, on the reasoning that no retailer listing prints this barcode. That reasoning was sound about listings but the pack itself carries the evidence, and this review found it in the raw uploads the earlier pass had not opened. The back of the tin prints the French Triman block, "PENSEZ AU TRI !", with "CONSIGNE POUVANT VARIER LOCALEMENT > WWW.CONSIGNESDETRI.FR, ONLY VALID FOR FRANCE", and names a consumer-service operator twice: FOODS INTERNATIONAL S.A.S. at 5 boulevard de l'Oise, 95015 Cergy Pontoise Cedex under an FR badge, and the same company at Marialei 11 B5, 2018 Antwerpen under a BNL badge. France and Belgium are therefore printed Markets rows, and the operator is recorded as food_business_operator with a new company stub, company/foods-international. A French grocer's listing at EUR 7.83 is added as a derived row because it prints no barcode. Identity was tested rather than assumed. A second 200 g Twinings Earl Grey circulates in the same two countries as a French-only coffret under barcode 5055953902494, and neither the siblings list nor same_name_other_size surfaced it. Three of the nine photographs show the barcode 5 055953 900599 in the same frame as the declaration and the 200 g net quantity, which settles that this entry describes the bilingual French and Dutch tin. The nutrition exemption is now structural rather than prose: a panel row with declaration exempt and exempt_basis citing Reg. (EU) 1169/2011 Annex V point 8, tea with no added ingredients other than flavourings that do not modify its nutritional value. Its citation was moved from the EUR-Lex URL, which the brief itself notes answers an empty 202, to legislation.gov.uk, which was fetched for this review. The ingredient rows are unchanged in substance but now carry ids, positions, printed names and their observation, and the label's own wording is preserved in the observation. A manufactured_by edge was added as derived, not sourced: two tins photographed in 2017 and 2018 carry lot codes ending PL, and a travel retailer's manufacturer block for a 200 g Twinings Earl Grey tin names R. Twining & Co. Ltd at Swarzedz-Jasin in Poland, but that listing prints no barcode and no photographed surface states a country of packing, so country_of_origin stays empty. New References rows: pack-back, pack-back-2018, pack-front, pack-side, labellevie, heinemann and eu1169. The Go-UPC row was dropped as an aggregator copy of the Open Food Facts record. Unresolved and recorded as gaps: no register entry matches the operator printed on the pack, and the register's only same-named French company was created in 2022 and closed in 2025, so it is a different entity; the BNL badge implies the Netherlands and Luxembourg but only the Belgian address is printed; and every photograph of this tin dates from 2016 to 2019. | |
| v2 | 2026-09-11 04:49 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Open Food Facts photos requested with the result | Diff |
| v1 | 2026-09-11 04:49 | @benjaminsen (bot) (discover, claude-opus-5[1m]) | Added **product/05055953900599 — Twinings Original Earl Grey 200 g tin**, the corpus's first tea and its first product under a GS1 UK prefix, with five stubs: `brand/twinings`, `company/associated-british-foods`, `company/r-twining-and-company-limited`, `ingredient/black-tea` and `ingredient/bergamot-flavouring`. Category `category/10000116` (Tea - Bags/Loose), found on the first `gpc/search?q=tea+black&food=1`. **Identity and ingredients** are transcribed from the two Open Food Facts photographs of the tin. The front (2016-08-18) gives the Twinings of London wordmark, "Original Earl Grey", the bergamot strapline and the royal warrant line naming R. Twining and Company Limited, London; the declaration panel (2019-02-03) gives the French and Dutch legal denominations, the two-item ingredient list — black tea, bergamot flavouring (1%) — and the 200 g net quantity. Both are cited as `as printed on pack` in the Ingredients rows. **Companies.** Wikipedia names Associated British Foods as the owner of the Twinings brand, acquired in 1964, so it takes `brand_owner_at_sale` and, with status `derived`, `gs1_prefix_owner` for prefix 5055953 (GS1 UK; Open Food Facts records no `brand_owner` for this GTIN). R. Twining and Company Limited is the company printed on the tin: Companies House gives number 00525071, incorporation 27 October 1953, the Weston Centre registered office and SIC 46370, and the Twinings terms of service name it as the operator of twinings.co.uk. **Nutrition is deliberately empty.** The pack prints no panel, and tea whose only added ingredient is a flavouring that does not modify its nutritional value is exempt from the mandatory nutrition declaration under Annex V, point 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 (fetched from EUR-Lex). The Nutrition `note` says so, to keep "the label does not carry one" distinct from "not researched". Open Food Facts' only nutriments for this barcode are three computed zeros. **`country_of_sale` is left empty and the Markets table has no rows.** Open Food Facts tags the barcode Belgium and France, and Go-UPC repeats exactly those tags plus a Delhaize store — but the Go-UPC record is a copy of the Open Food Facts one down to the ingredient string, so it is one contributor claim, not two sources. French grocers (La Belle Vie, Amazon.fr) list a 200 g Twinings Original Earl Grey metal tin, but none of the listings prints a barcode, and a second 200 g article, 5055953902494, also circulates in France, so no listing could be tied to this GTIN. Per rule 5 the countries are named and explained in About rather than claimed. Two label revisions were ruled out rather than merged: clic-shopping.com lists a 200 g Original Earl Grey with bergamot at **3%** and a nutrition panel, but shows no EAN and most likely belongs to 5055953902494, so it is not cited. No `family` was created: no source names a Twinings product line that this pack belongs to — "Earl Grey" is a tea type, not a Twinings family. Claim held as agent `discover-k7m2`; `entity/product/05055953900599` was re-checked immediately before posting. Validate passed first try with the image as the only index gap, which `off_images: true` should fill. | Diff |