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#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 …

Testimonial from an anti-waste manufacturer: when transparency benefits everyone!

At Open Food Facts, we work with all kinds of audiences: consumers, researchers, mobile applications but also food manufacturers. We developed the Pro platform 3 years ago to empower food manufacturers in updating their food data, and to offer them free tools for analysing their product portfolio, and in particular to enable them to identify …

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 …

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Sustainable Gastronomy Day – 18th June

What ? Gastronomy is sometimes called the art of food. It can also refer to a style of cooking from a particular region. In other words, gastronomy often refers to local food and cuisine.  Sustainability is the idea that something (e.g. agriculture, fishing or even preparation of food) is done in a way that is …

Open Food Facts & World Environment Day

On this World Environment Day, the Open Food Facts team wanted to celebrate the event!  First, a few details: What is World Environment Day? ☘️ Every year since 1973, the United Nations has organised an annual event to raise public awareness of environmental issues. With climate change and the importance of limiting global warming, every …

Open Food Facts at EmpoderaLIVE 2024: Technology at the service of democratic spaces

Are technology, data and AI shaping our future? Or will they help us to build a common space and guarantee our rights? It was to immerse themselves in these fascinating subjects that the Open Food Facts Partnerships team (Manon and Charlotte) travelled to Malaga on 21 and 22 May 2024 for the 16th edition of …

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Accessibility at Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts is an opensource project, which means it is open to as many people as possible, and that includes accessibility. Without even mentioning programming, the Open Food Facts database is a gold mine for people with visual problems. Let’s take the example of product photos, which can help to know more information about …

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A Scan Party in Cayenne

A “scan party” in Cayenne (French Guyana) for young people from the Local Mission ! A fantastic initiative by Vanessa Izéros, a public health nutritionist. 🔎 If you too would like to organise this type of participatory workshop around food, don’t hesitate to write to us so we can help you organise 😊: gala@openfoodfacts.org Vanessa’s feedback …

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Open Food Facts Project Grantee 2024: Marius

Who am I and how do I contribute to Open Food Facts? Hi everyone! I am Marius from Germany, currently living in Denmark. During the project grant 2024 and as an ambassador for the Open Food Facts project in Germany and the Nordics, I want to contribute to grow the network of volunteers as well …