Author: Gala Nafikova

The 2024 General Assembly of the Open Food Facts association

About the association  As many of you know, Open Food Facts is a non-profit association, with an open and collective governance. As such, it meets at a General Assembly every year.  During these few hours, the members of the association are updated on the project’s progress, its news, changes, financial accounts, etc. As members, they …

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 …

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 @ 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 …

#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 …

Open Food Facts Days 2024 this September in Paris

Open Food Facts 2024 – a unique opportunity to promote food transparency as a community! THEY ARE BACK ! On this Olympic year for France 🇫🇷, Open Food Facts will celebrate its champions – the members of its community around the world! We hope you can join us for our community weekend on the 21-22 …

Food Transparency in the Palm of Your Hand: Explore the Largest Open Food Database using DuckDB 🦆X🍊

What if I told you that you could access any information about the food industry at your fingertips? For free? A database containing products from all over the world, completely open access? This database exists and is provided by Open Food Facts, a non-profit organization with the mission to make food consumption transparent. With over 3 …