Open Food Facts recognised as a digital public good

Today, Open Food Facts was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance DPG Registry. The goal of the DPGA and its registry is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential …

Why it is crucial to defend the Next Generation Internet (NGI) programme for an ethical and open internet

Since its creation, the European Next Generation Internet (NGI) programme has supported hundreds of innovative projects to build the Internet of tomorrow: more respectful of privacy, more open, more inclusive and more ethical. The Open Food Facts project has been fortunate to benefit from funding from the NGI initiative, for which we are extremely grateful. …

50k prices on Open Prices !

We’ve reached 50 000 prices on Open Prices today ! 🎉 This amazing milestone is a collective effort from the 650 contributors of Open Prices. We thank all them for their effort towards greater transparency in the prices of food! 💰Open Prices is a project that started as a workshop at the Open Food Facts Days …

A researcher’s story: how I used Open Food Facts for my research

Presentation Dr. Aulesa, PhD, Emeritus of Biochemistry at Valle de Hebrón Hospital, Barcelona (Spain), and author/co-author of 98 publications (ResearchGate.net). Upon becoming emeritus, I found more time to dedicate to one of my hobbies: nutrition. I am convinced that food is the main medicine for humans. As a biochemist, I have always been interested in …

Help Open Food Facts to continue informing millions of consumers 🍽🥫

As an open data, community based organisation, at Open Food Facts we depend very much on you all to make an impact, and we want to thank you warmly for being part of the project 🙌. Every year, we embark on a new season of fundraising for our non-profit organisation. All help is very welcome. …

Open Food Facts’ India Database Reaches 10K Product Milestone!📈🎉

Post written by an Open Food Facts contributor krishanti. Repost from India Food Stats, article published on September 15, 2024. I’ve been actively contributing to Open Food Facts (OFF) – the Wikipedia of Food & an open-data project focused on food transparency and nutrition since January 2023, participating in both data collection and review. Recently, we’ve hit …

A look back at the Open Food Facts professionals annual meet-up in Paris

Open Food Facts is fundamentally a community of volunteer contributors, and September’s Community Days enabled us once again to solidify it (read the blog article on the 2024 edition). However, Open Food Facts is also part of a multitude of players who make up our food system – namely, professionals from a variety of backgrounds. …

A look back @ Open Food Facts Days 2024

It’s been a few months that we have been excitedly waiting to meet together as a community again !  Although we are hoping to not do our annual weekends only in Paris or France, we were able to secure the same venue – the Académie du Climat, free of charge, thanks to the city of …

Eat GMO-free thanks to the Non-GMO project and its data on Open Food Facts

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose DNA has been denatured to give it properties it did not originally possess. Consumers need to know this information, which is why The Butterfly label, from the NON-GMO project, was created. By this initiative, the nonprofit organization agreed to tell us more about their mission, and …

#PortraitSeries: 10 years of contribution by tacite

Who I am, my contribution to Open Food Facts ? I’ve been contributing to Open Food Facts for 10 years under the pseudonym “Tacite”. Otherwise, in my day-to-day life, I’m an administrative secretary in the north of France and I’m 33. I also try to be useful in other projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. Favourite …