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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

• 👩‍💻 Development
• 📢 Communication
• 🌐 Local Communities
• 🚨 Moderation

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

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.

Projects

• 🎨 Re-design
• Food archeology: Add VERY old products to Open Food Facts :-)
• ♿️ Accessibility (Blindness,…)
• Community portal
• Contribute back
• Diets
• Structured Data (Wikidata linking)
• 🕹️ Gamifying Open Food Facts
• Barcodes (Non Standard Barcodes, Blacklist, False positives, Countries)
• OCR
• Public data
• Roadmap
• 🇪🇺 Project:EU Project Citizen Observatories
• 🥗🧬 Ingredients ontology
• 🧪 Food additives
• Multilingual products
• Product versions and history
• Product issues dropdown list
• SvelteKit Frontend

On-going Projects

• Server (Product Opener) (incl. Mobile web)
• 🤳🥫 Mobile Apps / Project Smoothie (The new Open Food Facts app, in Flutter)
• 🔎 Personalized Search
• 🧽 Data quality & Error detection
• Folksonomy Engine

Food-specific projects

• What's in my yogurt? / 🍺 Beers (best practices), 🍷Wine & Spirits
• 🐾 Project:Petfood / Mapping fast food

News

✨ 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/master/CHANGELOG.md

2024-12

2024-12-17 - Open Food Facts launches the evolved Nutri-Score on all our platforms ! Find more here.

2024-12-10 - 🎉 Open Food Facts has been recognised as a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a multi-stakeholder initiative endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General, working to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

2024-12-05 - The Annual General Assembly of the Open Food Facts association took place: Blog article.

2024-12-04 - Manon from Open Food Facts joins a round table "Funding the digital common" at the Open Source Experience event in Paris.

2024-12-02 - A 2-day Hackathon on Food Data organised in Paris by DINUM (+Etalab), MASAF (Ministry of Agriculture), Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) and in partnership with Open Food Facts and FranceAgriMer. See more here.

2024-11

2024-11-29 - Open Prices, a recent project by Open Food Facts, have already collected 50k+ prices. Read here.

2024-11-16 - Two scan parties took place: one in Lyon (at the Melting Coop), assisted by Charlotte, and one in Rennes (at Avenir Bio shop) coordinated by one of our volunteers, Alizarine.

2024-10

2024-10-10 - OPEN FOOD FACTS PRO DAYS 2024 are taking place in Paris. All the crunchy details here.

2024-10-24 - Milestone: 10k products reached in India ! Our Indian contributor Krishanti tells us more.

2024-10-01 - 💌 Our Annual Donation Campaign has started - please renew your support to Open Food Facts with a donation: read full blog article.

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. Recap article on our blog.

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

Data reuse

• Reusing Open Food Facts Data: where? how?
• 🔬 Open Food Facts and Science: what? who? how?
• API (new version - Help with the doc)
• 📍🏭Location (Food establishments & Made Near Me)

Misc.

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