Generating Country of Origin Labels

Foodworks helps you create Country of Origin Labels (CoOL) that comply with the Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016. It calculates the percentage of Australian ingredients in your recipes, helps you write the origin statement, and provides the standard mark graphics.

To set up CoOL:

1. Turn on the CoOL components for your workspace.
2. Enter the Australian content for each raw material.
3. Create the CoOL statement for each recipe.

1. Turn on CoOL for your workspace

CoOL components are turned off by default in workspaces set to New Zealand.

1. Go to Workspace settings and select the Nutrients & components tab.
2. Unlock Nutrients and components.
3. Select the Country of Origin category.
4. Turn on %Australia and Reconstitution Factor.
5. Lock Nutrients and components.

2. Enter the Australian content for raw materials

Foodworks calculates a recipe's Australian content from its raw materials, so each raw material needs a value.

1. Open the raw material and click Edit.
2. On the Nutrients tab, in the Override column, enter:
   • Australia (%): the percentage of the raw material that is Australian in origin, as defined in the Information Standard.
   • Reconstitution factor: only for raw materials that are reconstituted, such as fruit juice concentrate. For example, enter 5 for a concentrate reconstituted with 5 parts water to 1 part concentrate. Leave it blank if the raw material isn't reconstituted.
3. When you're ready, click Publish.

To check a recipe's Australian content, open the recipe and look under Country of Origin in the analysis pane.

3. Create the CoOL statement for a recipe

The requirements depend on whether the food is a priority or non-priority food, and where it was grown, produced, made or packed. See ACCC: Country of origin food labelling – a guide for business.

1. Open the recipe and click Edit.
2. On the Labelling tab, select CoOL.
3. Turn on Show CoOL on label.
4. Select the country of origin.
5. Select the Statement type, such as Made in.
6. Select Priority or Non-Priority food. Standard marks are always shown for priority foods. For non-priority foods, you can choose whether to show them, where applicable.

Optional settings

• Orientation: choose Landscape or Portrait to suit your packaging.
• Highlighted Ingredient(s) Phrase: enter an ingredient to show inside the CoOL graphic, for example "Australian tomatoes".
• Ingredient sources vary phrase: if your Australian content varies, enter where customers can find current information, such as a phone number or website.

Use your CoOL label

• Copy the CoOL graphic: in the label viewer, select Copy CoOL, then paste the image where you need it.
• Save the whole label: in the label viewer, select Generate PNG. The label downloads automatically.

Export CoOL data for label printing software

1. Go to Workspace settings and select Export data under the Tools heading. 
2. Under Resources and tags, choose which resources to export.
3. Select Export.
4. Download the .csv file from the History tab.

The export includes these CoOL columns:

Download the CoOL graphics

If your label printing software needs the CoOL graphics as image files:

1. Go to Workspace settings and select Assets.
2. Select CountryofOriginLabelling_assets to download CoOLAssets.zip.
3. Unzip the file to use the PNG images.