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👋 🥳 Welcome to the Open Food Facts wiki!
This wiki is a collaborative space for contributors to the Open Food Facts project.
We can use it to share and discuss ideas about the project and its sub-projects, to implement them and to document them.
There, you can showcase your contributions, and it's even possible to start conversation with other users.
😞 Feeling a bit lost?
- Where am I? will give you an overview of all the useful links to get a grip with the Open Food Facts galaxy!
- How to contribute to the wiki? will explain you how to log-in, edit, improve, and add content to help grow the Open Food Facts Wiki.
🍊 How to help within the Open Food Facts project?
Find out how you can contribute to the Open Food Facts project through data entry, community engagement, representation, localisation, code development and more.
♻️ How to reuse the Open Food Facts database and API?
Explore the ways you can leverage our open data and API for your own mobile app, research, or student projects. Join the club of the 300+ reusers in the world!
🏗️ Open Food Facts current projects
Stay updated on the ongoing and future initiatives of Open Food Facts.
📷 Open Products Facts // 💄 Open Beauty Facts // 🐱 Open Pet Food Facts
Discover our sister projects dedicated to transparency in cosmetics, pet food, and other consumer products.
✨ Latest Features
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-dart/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices-frontend/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
2024-09
2024-09-25 - Open Food Facts participates in the NEC (Numérique en commun(s)) in Chambéry, France.
2024-09-21/22 - OPEN FOOD FACTS DAYS 2024 are taking place in Paris this weekend. Event wiki page here. Watch all the lightning talks from this year here.
2024-07
2024-07-05 - 🇧🇪 Carrefour Belgium imports data for the first in Open Food Facts → ±2500 products have been addedǃ
2024-06
2024-06-28 - 🇪🇺 Data Europa invited us to take part in a webinar about "'Stories from the Use Case Observatory". The replay is available here.
2024-06-20 - 🇪🇸 Carrefour Spain has automated the data transfert with Open Food Facts 🥳
2024-06-12 - Open Food Facts joined the OW2 conference to engage with other open source actors.
2024-06-01 - 🇪🇺 2 pages dedicated to Open Food Facts in the Use Case Observatory report, conducted by Data Europa - the official portal for European open data. The purpose of this research project: is to contribute to data.europa.eu’s broader goal of measuring the economic impact of open data across Europe over 3 years (2022–2025).
2024-05
2024-05-27 - 🙋♀️ The permanent team welcomes Mélanie, who will assist part time as an admin manager.
2024-05-21 - 🇪🇸 Manon and Charlotte (Open Food Facts Partnership Team) are participating in the 16th edition of EmpoderaLIVE, an international event on civic technologies in Malaga
2024-05-17 - 🚥 Nutri-Score V2 deployed on Open Food Facts.
2024-05-16 - ♿️ Global Accessibility Awareness Day activities at Open Food Facts.
2024-05-10 - 🛒🥫 Scan Party in Cayenne (French Guyana) organised by a public health nutritionist Vanessa Izeros, along with some young people. Read article here
2024-04
- 2024-04-15 - 🇫🇷 Manon & Alex from Open Food Facts participated in 2 episodes of the podcast Projets libres! by Walid François Nouh.
- 2024-04-07 - For 🔎 World Health Day 2024 (by the World Health Organisation), here's a few highlights of public health research Open Food Facts participated in (ENG article, en français).
- 2024-04-03 - Open Food Facts is taking part in the 🧑🌾🍽️ Journée de l'Alimentation at the Arches Citoyennes with other food actors. Open to public.
- 2024-04-01 - Achraf Elkhanjari took "A Deep Dive into the Open Food Facts Dataset" (Medium) and wrote an article about it. Enjoy !
- 2024-04-01 - Open Food Facts has its 1st Project Grantee, Marius. He will be leading the effort of creating a local community in Germany & the Nordic countries in 2024. Learn more about Marius in this article.
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- 📆 Upcoming Events: to list meetups, conferences and other events that we could participate in
- Noteworthy Products: to link to the pages of special products. e.g. interesting or exotic codes.
- Products to check: products that have dubious data.
- Products to delete: products that are not food products.
- "Category deep-dives": ex: What's in my yogurt? / 🍺 Beers (best practices), 🍷Wine & Spirits - Mapping fast food
- 🐾 OpenPetFoodFacts / 🧴Open Beauty Facts / 📸 Open Products Facts
- 👩⚖️ Legal & Terms of use
- ❓ FAQ / Press