A Conservative OCR-Enabled Workflow for R214 Sodium Screening of South African Packaged Foods
Using food package images to monitor sodium and salt content against South Africa's R214 sodium limits is challenging when screening decisions require product identity, nutrition facts panel evidence, reporting basis, and category-specific thresholds. This study presents a conservative image-based workflow that combines region detection, optical character recognition (OCR), product identity and sodium evidence extraction, R214 category assignment, deterministic threshold comparison, and independent vision language model comparison. The evaluation used 442 packaged food products and 3 929 full package images from a real-world South African food packaging dataset. A YOLO26s small detector generated 4 195 region crops, and strict post-processing produced one sodium evidence row per product. The integrated workflow produced 290 OUTSIDE R214 SCOPE, 139 REVIEW, seven SCREEN-PASS, and six SCREEN-FAIL outcomes. The independent Qwen2.5-VL 7B vision language model workflow produced 387 OUTSIDE R214 SCOPE, 31 REVIEW, twenty SCREEN-PASS, and four SCREEN-FAIL outcomes. The workflows agreed on exact R214 category assignment for 415 of 442 products (93.9%) and on whether the assigned category was within R214 scope for 416 of 442 products (94.1%). Final screening outcome agreement was 307 out of 442 products, or 69.5%. Manual verification on 60 products showed lower strict outcome agreement than regulated status agreement, while all manual INSUFFICIENT DATA cases were kept out of SCREEN-PASS and SCREEN-FAIL by both automated workflows. The findings show that conservative image-based screening can organise package evidence, identify clear cases, and assign uncertain cases to REVIEW rather than forcing SCREEN-PASS or SCREEN-FAIL decisions.
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