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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.

About Open Food Facts

team / blog / Come and discuss on Open Food Facts' Slack / GitHub

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To edit and contribute to pages, first log in on Open Food Facts with your account and then come back here and refresh the page: you will then be automatically signed in.

Contributing

How to help: there are different ways (improving the database, community management, software development...)
Projects homepage: projects synthesized (ongoing projects, future projects, past ones...)
Data fields explained, and how to fill them
🥗 Ingredients : projects, tools & how to help
Products to be completed
All states
🧽 Quality: how to help
👩‍💻 Software Development (Scroll down to the Help technically section)
📚 Documentation
🎨 Design
🏭 Help to get Producers' data
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
🌱 How to contribute on the Environment
💸 Prices (Project:Open-Prices)

Teams

Contacts

Chat on Slack / Facebook Global Page - French Group / Twitter (Global, FR, DE…) / Blog / Forum

Help the project get local

Translations (Website, Categories, Marketing assets…) for information, corrections and improvements.
🌐 Internationalization & 🧬 Global taxonomies, Country Support (FIXME: deprecated, merge with LoCos), Local Communities

Help market the project

📢 Communication / Raw blog / Images and presentations
📢 Public Relations (presskit, social media and media monitoring)
Presentation Kit

Help technically

👩‍💻 Overview of all the things you can help technically on

Misc.

👩‍⚖️ Legal & Terms of use
❓ FAQ / Press
🕹️ Mission ideas

News

✨ Latest Features

2024-10

2024-10-xx - OPEN FOOD FACTS PRO DAYS 2024 are taking place in Paris

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.

Older news...
Upcoming Events: to list meetups, conferences and other events that we could participate in

Product lists

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.

Food-specific projects