Open Food Facts Press Kit
Get material for compelling stories on food transparency, the scan revolution we're igniting and the importance of creating open commons to foster and sustain a healthy food debate.
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Press Contacts
We will be very happy to answer all the questions you may have, please e-mail us at press@openfoodfacts.org
Anca Luca
president of Open Food Facts NGO
Stéphane Gigandet
founder of the Open Food Facts association
(+33) 6 88 96 17 49
Pierre Slamich
co-founder of the Open Food Facts association
(+33) 6 02 13 14 57
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Key Facts about Open Food Facts
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Open Food Facts is a food information database unique in the world:
With 300,000 users/month, Open Food Facts has already become, in 11 years only, the reference for food information in several countries. It supports research and public policies aimed at a healthier diet. |
The 5 major success stories of Open Food Facts?
Creating the first freely reusable global database on food products
More than 700,000 products identified by more than 16,000 contributors. The Open Food Facts data is also published on the official French open data portal, data.gouv.fr.
Informing the general public and professionals
The consumer app is installed on more than 750,000 phones or tablets. The site and the application are used by 100,000 users / day and 6 million users per year.
Promoting nutritional quality indicators
For 3 years, Open Food Facts has been supporting the roll out of Nutri-Score in 5 European countries. In France, Open Food Facts has been displaying the Nutri-Score since 2015, before its officialization. In Spain and Belgium, Open Food Facts also precedes the adoption of Nutri-Score by these countries. Open Food Facts also helped bring ultra-processing in the limelight by computing the NOVA classification, and made ecological labelling a reality by computing the Eco-Score at scale.
Creating and maintaining an ecosystem of uses and research
Since its creation, Open Food Facts has developed a real ecosystem of reuse of its data. Since the Open Food Facts data is freely reusable, several information sites, start-ups, research laboratories, teachers, etc., have started their activity and / or use the Open Food Facts data daily: Yuka, Foodvisor, Scaneat, Ya Quoi Dedans (What’s inside) (Super U), Buy Or Not, nopalm.org, My Nutritional Info…
Change the practices of manufacturers
For 2 years, Open Food Facts has helped to change the practices of the food industry; they know and rely on Open Food Facts to compare and improve their products. Many companies spontaneously communicate the data of their products on the platform: Fleury Michon, Super U, Carrefour, Casino, etc.
Who uses the Open Food Facts data?
It would be too long to name all the organizations that build on the Open Food Facts platform.
- More than 100 applications for mobile phones that meet the needs of various audiences: diabetes (VeryDiab), allergies, food balance via artificial intelligence (FoodVisor), disabilities, and more. Our base also allowed the creation of Yuka.
- Many websites: HowMuchSugar.in, MadeNear.me…
- Data-journalists: Le Monde's Decoders, BFMTV
- Researchers in nearly 100 scientific articles
- Food banks and solidarity stores: Data For Good project in the continuity of a pilot project initiated by the French Red Cross, integration into the cash management of a small food cooperative.
- Established companies: Terraillon to bring its connected kitchen scales to life.
- Programming schools (Simplon, Open Classrooms) have integrated Open Food Facts as a motivating project in their curriculum.
Open Food Facts in numbers
Those numbers might help convey the large, direct and indirect, impact of Open Food Facts
products, contributed by volunteers and producers alike
Number of languages in which Open Food Facts is available.
Number of people directly using our website, Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app to scan barcodes, get informed and contribute pictures of products.
apps and services enabled by Open Food Facts
number of scientific papers based or citing Open Food Facts
Active contributors that ensure the quality of the Open Food Facts database
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Selected Open Food Facts media appearences
2013 - Le Monde
Food: facing doubt, netizens are organizing (in French). Interview of Open Food Facts in Le Monde.
2015 - Envoyé Spécial on sugar
We were featured on Envoyé Spécial in 2015, on a segment on light products. Envoyé Special is the #1 investigative show in France, similar to BBC Panorama.
2019 - C'est En France - The Scan Revolution
We presented Open Food Facts on France 24 as part of a segment on the food revolution we kickstarted in France (French version).
More media coverage
Open Food Facts media mentions
All media mentions we could find between 2012 and now.
Screenshots of the iPhone and Android version of Open Food Facts
Eco-Score resources
Eco-Score leaf
Podcast about the Eco-Score
Podcast in English
Podcast in French
The latest news
Latest posts on the English Open Food Facts blog
English Open Food Facts blog - French Open Food Facts blog - Italian Open Food Facts blog - Spanish Open Food Facts blog - German Open Food Facts blog- Bulgarian Open Food Facts blog
Our latest communiques
Our full list of communiques is coming soon. Future communiques will be listed here.