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For Natasha's Law we have created a new tier of supplier called the Product Supplier. At Product Supplier level, you can upload ingredients which can be accessed by all of your IndiCater clients. This means you don't have to upload the same info for multiple clients. Over the next 6 months we will continue to expand this functionality to add nutrition and allergens so that they can also be uploaded once for all clients. We will be adding other new functionality and updating the pages as part of this projectYou can also enter links to images (graphicstring) and some other fields although please note that whilst these are available for the orderer to view when ordering, only the ingredients are used elsewhere in the system.
Assumptions
A catalogue is being submitted for at least one client.
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The ingredients for each item need to be in descending weight order, this is as they appear on the manufacturer's packaging. The 2nd set of ingredients in the example above is for a bagel and they are sorted by weight, with the amount of wheat flour being the heaviest and the wheat starch being the lightest.
Allergens should be included and can be in capitals but this is not essential. The IndiCater application will search for and bold all allergen words when displaying the data to the client
Ingredients are still required for an item that contains no extra ingredients, for example a carrot.
Here is an example of how the data might look. Please note column B is not required to be completed but is completed in this example for clarity:
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