Open Food Facts at Anuga 2025 in Cologne!
Open Food Facts at Anuga 2025 in Cologne !
From October 4 to 8, 2025, Anuga was back in Cologne! Held every 2 years, Anuga is one of the world’s largest trade fairs for food industry professionals. This year’s edition brought together 7,900 exhibitors from 118 countries and 140,000 visitors from across the global food ecosystem.
And Open Food Facts was there too!
Two volunteers from our amazing community,André and Stephanie, proudly represented Open Food Facts during two exciting days at the fair.
They introduced our collaborative project and open-source tools to plenty of exhibitors. The goal for them was to make Open Food Facts more visible and ideally convince the food manufacturers to share product data with us.
After those 2 days of intense networking, they collected no less than… 200+ business cards!!!
We now hope that as many producers as possible will agree to list their products on Open Food Facts. 🤞
The volunteers, André and Stephanie share their experience
“ANUGA was an incredible experience. As soon as we arrived we were overwhelmed with the magnitude of the event.
There was food from every corner of the world. We get to try more food varieties in 2 days than we would over the course of a year. Some producers were very interested in Open Food Facts and were eager to talk with us with a smile, others would only get interested after seeing their own products uploaded by their users.
It was a very pleasant experience to get to know the latest trends in the food industry and advocate for Open Food Facts while doing that.”
André, about his experience at the fair.
Huge thanks to André and Stephanie for making Anuga 2025 an Open Food Facts moment in Cologne!
Want to join next time ?
We’d love to have you!
→ You can represent Open Food Facts at an event too. You can also contribute to our tools. Alternatively, help expand our database. Every contribution matters.→ If you have identified a fair or would like to attend the next one with a member of the permanent team (or not!), get in touch at contact@openfoodfacts.org and/or connect with us on Slack.
At Open Food Facts, we keep in touch with everyone :
You represent an institutional actor, a label,… or are just curious? Contact us at contact@openfoodfacts.org
You are a manufacturer? Contact us at producers@openfoodfacts.org