Last February, the permanent team of Open Food Facts (Alex, Charles, Edouard, Gala, Manon, Pierre, Raphael and Stéphane (and Sarazine, our super intern !) has moved into a small office under the roofs of Paris. It’s not very big, but the view is pretty spectacular ! This is the first time in its 10 years …
The CIBUS After Germany, the next stop is Italy 🍕 for the Open Food Facts team!From March 29th to 30th, we were in Parma, Italy to take part in the CIBUS: an international food fair in which Italian gastronomy and terroir are in the spotlight. This was an opportunity to meet with producers, distributors and …
Choosing a path together Last year, we built a new mobile app for Open Food Facts. We are very proud of it, and it’s already used by thousands of people. Now we would like this app to reach an even larger audience that will use it regularly: We would like to build together a vision …
Open Food Facts’ contributor John shares his experience of working on this collaborative project for the first time ! ☄️ I’ve been working with computers for over 40 years and I’ve always enjoyed getting stuck into the code, despite now being called a “software architect”. For a number of years I’ve been wanting to find …
Open Food Facts is a non-profit organisation that works for food transparency. But not only that! It is also the largest open source food database in the world! 🌍 (yep!) As an open database, operating under an ODbL (Open Database Licence), we allow different stakeholders to access and reuse the data for various projects. Whether it …
Inaugurated in 2019 with the support of Santé publique France, the Pro platform enables food manufacturers and retailers to share their products’ information with their consumers for free. After the logo, the App and the website, it is the Pro platform’s turn to get a well deserved makeover! It now offers a more ergonomic interface …
On 12th of January, we launched a special operation on food packaging with a press conference and a citizen workshop (or a scan party as we like to call it) at the Climate Academy in Paris. This initiative is supported by the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME). Read more about this day: Article Open …
Since the late 2000s, a consensus has emerged on the need for environmental labelling of agricultural products. In 2013, the first version of Agribalyse was jointly unveiled by the ADEME (The French Agency for Ecological Transition) and the INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment). Agribalyse ? What is it ? …
Last week, on 16 February 2023, Pierre Slamich (co-founder) and Manon Corneille (Head of International Development) went to The Hague in the Netherlands to attend the conference “Towards a harmonised Ecolabel for food in the EU“. Organised by Wageningen University & Research, the aim of the conference was to bring together the key stakeholders, working …
🧂A pinch of context: “logos” ? Open Food Facts is filled with about 3 million products. Each product has a packaging which is made to attract as many people as possible. To this regard, productors highlight the qualities of their products with flashy and explicit symbols. These symbols are numerous and can give information on …
