I just stumbled upon a product which has at least two different regional variants, produced by different manufacturers and having different ingredients and nutritional stats. But the packaging is 99% identical and apparently they share the same EAN-13 code.
How do I handle that?
This is the product page:
The most recent photos uploaded in 2025-11-12 show “Liecken Brot- und Backwagen GmbH” in DE-49681 Garrel as the manufacturer on the packaging:
But I bought a pack of this product today (2026-01-31), best before date 2026-02-12, and it has a different manufacturer “Brotland GmbH” in D-22859 Schenefeld on it, as well as different ingredients and so on:
It is not a case of the brand switching to a new manufacturer and terminating the contract with the old one. You can also see the manufacturer being very variable in the older product photos.
Instead they seem to produce this product at multiple factories with slightly different recipes, resulting in different ingredients and therefore also different nutritional stats.
Do we have a way to tag multiple coexisting product variants?