Partners of Open Food Facts

A big thank you to Open Food Facts partners!

Open Food Facts is an associative project and citizen of general interest to improve the food and the health of all. Tens of thousands of volunteers are involved in the project, and the infrastructure needed to support and facilitate their work is funded by one-on-one donations and committed partners.

Note: to stay independent, we do not accept financial support from companies and foundations related to the food industry, but we are happy to collaborate with producers to automatically integrate data and photos of their products into the database.

Development

The development of the Open Food Facts database and mobile application is carried out with the financial support of Public Health France .

6-12-2018: Public Health France and Open Food Facts join forces to strengthen the openness of food data and promote the use of Nutri-Score

The development of the new Open Food Facts cross-platform mobile application is sponsored thanks to the generous award of the Ford Foundation and Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS), with the support of Open Collective.

4-22-2020: Open Food Facts gets an award by the Mozilla and Ford foundations for a new mobile app for even greater impact.

The development of privacy-first and personalized healthier product recommendations in the new Open Food Facts cross-platform mobile application is sponsored thanks to the support of the NLNet Foundation and the European Union.

The backend of the Open Food Facts database, web site and API is written in the Perl programming language, and part of the development is supported by The Perl Foundation .

Summer 2020: The Perl Foundation is funding one intern through the Outreachy program to work on improving the code quality of Open Food Facts.

Web Hosting

The site and the Open Food Facts database are hosted on servers generously provided by the Free Foundation .

10-9-2018: 2 new servers to host Open Food Facts thanks to the Free Foundation

Scientific collaborations

The Nutri-Score was developed by the EREN Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team which uses the Open Food Facts database to check the validity of Nutri-Score in different countries.

07-08-2015: Application to the products available on the French market of the nutritional profile associated with the 5-color system (5-C): consistency with the consumption benchmarks of the PNNS

NutriNet-Santé is a cohort study that tracks the nutrition and health of volunteers for several years. EREN uses NutriNet data cross-referenced with Open Food Facts data to study the long-term effects of food additives.

→ Participate in Nutri-Net to help research (For French residents).

The AFNIC foundation for Digital Solidarity supports the development of a united internet, training and awareness of its uses, by supporting local and structuring digital solidarity initiatives and research projects on the theme of digital solidarity.