How Open Food Facts can help reduce waste and improve recycling

image source Contrary to popular belief, most of the waste we produce is not recycled but buried or burned. Globally less than 10% of our waste resources are recycled, either because we don’t know how to recycle the material or because we don’t collect it. Despite this, reducing waste impact is critical to many of …

Meeting more than 400 producers in 2 days!? It’s possible thanks to SIAL!  

For more than 40 years, the SIAL trade fair – Salon International de l’Alimentation – has been one of the world’s largest events for all the players in the food industry. After a four-year absence due to the pandemic, SIAL was back from 15 to 19 October 2022 at the Parc des Expositions de Paris …

A Clever device to photograph tins

Daniel (alias dada) had already presented his ingenious mini transportable photo studio , he now offers us another very clever contraption that can take shots packaging tin can or more generally cylindrical products. This is a problem we have on Open Food Facts: the photos of the labels on the bottles, cans and cans are …

Open your tube of toothpaste to advance science!

In partnership with EREN (The Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team –  Inserm/Inra/CNAM/University of Paris),Open Food Facts calls its contributors to add all dental hygiene products to the Open Beauty Factsdatabase. Tooth brushing is a ritual that we repeat daily. Every day, and several times a day, we use our toothpaste or our mouthwash to ensure our …

Open Food Facts contributes to diversity in tech

In Summer 2022, with The Perl Foundation’s support we were able to participate in the Outreachy program which promotes diversity in open source projects. This year we also took initiative to participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration’s pre-event called Open Source Day. We hosted two interns as part of Outreachy: Raquel and Yukti. They were …

Save the date: Open Food Facts Days 2022

The Open Food Facts Days 🔎🍊 is the community’s annual event! 2 days to exchange, brainstorm, discuss but also share convivial moments. It’s the perfect opportunity to get ideas flowing while having a good time together in the heart of Paris. 🗓 When ? Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October 2022 📍Where ? in Paris, …

On taxonomies

This blog entry is written by Yukti (who joins us with the Outreachy program). She kindly gave us permission to share it here as we think it explains the topic very well. Thank you very much Yukti! (Link to the original article “Everybody Struggles”). We are now in Week 3 of the Outreachy internship! A …

Share your product data in 1 click with the new AGENA3000 connector

More than 150 producers are now contributing to food transparency by uploading their product data to Open Food Facts, using a dedicated tool: the pro platform.  For producers who are clients of AGENA3000, a specialist in food data management, sharing product photos and data on Open Food Facts is now possible in just a few …

3 things we took away from VivaTech 2022

On the 15-18th of June, Open Food Facts had the pleasure to be at the annual VivaTech fair in Paris. Over the course of 4 eventful days, the world’s leading start-ups, companies & organizations presented their diverse innovations. Some of this year’s prominent guests were Audrey Azoulay (UNESCO – Director-General), Garry Kasparov… and even the …

The new app is here !

#BigNews Want to know everything about the new app, head over here : Press Release – New Mobile App. The Open Food Facts team: Alex, Charles, Edouard, Gala, Manon, Pierre & Stéphane