Food Transparency, Public Health & Open Commons
Verified data, investigative leads, high-resolution media assets, and direct access to our spokespeople behind the world's largest open food database. Built for journalists, food writers, content creators, broadcasters, and ecosystem partners.
What brings you here today?
Whether you are breaking an investigation on deadline, recording a podcast, or filming a social video, here is how we can help.
Investigative Journalists
Need custom queries across 3.6M+ products, ingredient analysis, or rapid on-the-record quotes for your newsroom? We respond quickly to media deadlines.
Food Bloggers & Creators
Create engaging content for YouTube, TikTok, Substack, or Instagram: label breakdowns, supermarket scan challenges, additive hunts, and shrinkflation checks.
Broadcasters & Podcasters
Book our spokespeople for live in-studio or remote interviews (EN, FR, ES). Access high-definition visual B-roll and compelling human-interest stories.
Partners, NGOs & Institutions
Discover how to reuse our open data (ODbL), connect food brands via the free Producer Platform, or partner on public health and sustainability research.
Working on an investigative food story or data exposé?
Our data engineers and volunteer scientists can run custom SQL and analytical queries across 3.6M+ products (emerging additives, recipe reformulations, regional price differences, plastic packaging). Strict confidentiality under embargo.
The Many Stories of Open Food Facts
Open Food Facts is far more than a barcode scanner. It is a digital public commons at the crossroads of public health, planetary boundaries, consumer purchasing power, the circular economy, and civic AI.
The Nutri-Score Revolution & Recipe Reformulation
How an open citizen database validated and pioneered front-of-pack nutritional labeling in Europe, compelling food manufacturers to cut sugar, salt, and saturated fats.
Story Angles:
- The 2024 Nutri-Score update: tighter rules on sweeteners, red meat, and refined carbohydrates.
- Silent recipe reformulation: how brands reworked ingredients to earn a higher grade.
- Industry lobbying vs public health evidence: the political history of the 5-color badge.
Ultra-Processed Foods (NOVA) & The Additive Maze
Beyond calorie counts: how industrial processing, texturizers, and emulsifiers disrupt gut health and metabolic function. Open Food Facts audits the ingredients list of millions of products.
Story Angles:
- The NOVA 4 trap in organic and plant-based aisles: meat substitutes packed with ultra-processed additives.
- Nitrites in deli meats, titanium dioxide (E171), and sweeteners: how citizen data alerted consumers before regulatory bans.
- The additive cocktail effect: assessing multiple combined emulsifiers in children's diets.
The Green-Score: Measuring The Planetary Impact of Food
Food generates 25-30% of global greenhouse emissions. Open Food Facts combines ADEME Agribalyse Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) with packaging recyclability and deforestation indicators.
Story Angles:
- Single-use plastic & overpackaging: calculating the true packaging waste generated by weekly groceries.
- Imported deforestation: tracing palm oil and soy risk across global supermarket brands.
- Organic vs conventional farming: quantifying real biodiversity and carbon footprint differences.
Open Prices: Crowdsourcing Inflation & Shrinkflation
Facing the grocery affordability crisis, citizens upload receipts to build an open, real-time observatory of price disparities across supermarket chains and territories.
Story Angles:
- Shrinkflation exposed: smaller packages sold at higher unit prices, tracked across time.
- Store price gouging: identical items differing by up to 40% between store locations of the same chain.
- Everyday family basket inflation vs official macro indexes.
Open Products Facts: Defragmenting Product Data to Fluidify the Circular Economy
Product data fragmentation across proprietary silos and incompatible formats is one of the greatest bottlenecks to repair, reuse, and recycling. Open Products Facts provides the universal open data commons needed to break data silos and fluidify the circular economy.
Story Angles:
- Open Digital Product Passports (DPP): ensuring the circular transition is powered by open public commons rather than locked into proprietary software monopolies.
- Repairability & spare parts linkage: connecting every consumer product's universal barcode to teardown guides, repairability scores, and spare part catalogs.
- Material traceability & recycling streams: documenting exact polymer compositions, recyclable fractions, and hazardous components to supercharge automated sorting and industrial remanufacturing.
Global Infrastructure for Epidemiological Science
Over 1,000 peer-reviewed papers (Inserm, INRAE, Harvard, Oxford) rely on Open Food Facts data to advance public health, nutrition science, and evidence-based policy.
Story Angles:
- Major cohort studies: correlation between consumption of ultra-processed foods and chronic disease risks.
- Citizen science filling the void left by closed corporate datasets.
- How independent European scientific committees evaluated and refined front-of-pack algorithms.
The Wikipedia of Food: Ethical AI & Open Source Commons
Proving an open, non-profit community can out-innovate corporate silos using open-source Flutter apps, computer vision, in-house OCR, and collective intelligence.
Story Angles:
- AI for consumer empowerment: in-house OCR parsing nutritional tables without surveillance tech.
- Scan Parties: how citizen communities turn grocery shopping into collaborative data hackathons.
- 100% independent non-profit: zero tracking, zero ads, zero private shareholder capture.
Cosmetics, Pet Food & Beyond: Transparency in Every Aisle
Expanding citizen transparency beyond the food aisle to cosmetics (endocrine disruptors, allergens), pet nutrition, and all barcode-identified products.
Story Angles:
- Open Beauty Facts: identifying endocrine disruptors, allergens, and microplastics in cosmetics.
- Open Pet Food Facts: unmasking pet food nutritional claims and filler ingredients.
- A universal open key: barcode data as an open public good.
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Enrich your articles with official, modern screenshots of the Open Food Facts mobile app on iOS and Android (available in 33 languages).
Spokespeople & Press Contacts
Our team and topic specialists are available for television broadcasts, radio interviews, panel debates, and expert commentary.
Anca Luca
Open source advocate and ecosystem leader. She steers the strategic vision, international contributor community, and governance of the Open Food Facts non-profit.
Stéphane Gigandet
Civic tech pioneer and open data veteran. Founded Open Food Facts in 2012 to empower citizens with radical transparency over their food choices.
Pierre Slamich
Specialist in food policy impact, the European Nutri-Score rollout, ethical AI, mobile civic-tech architecture, and circular product data ecosystems.
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