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**Author:** [@charlesnepote](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/charlesnepote)\ **Replies:** 0
The little and big announcements about the project and the community. Stay informed about the main news of the project. Tip for the editors: make it short and simple (a child of 12 should understand any announcement). … --- ## [General Assembly & membership at Open Food Facts](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/general-assembly-membership-at-open-food-facts/2276)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2026, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/general-assembly-membership-at-open-food-facts/2276 "2026-06-17T08:06:56Z")
Dear Open Food Facts community, Open Food Facts is not only an open database of food products. It is also an association. As such, we’re happy to invite you to our next General Assembly that will take place on: … --- ## [Richer and better structured data in Open Food Facts](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/richer-and-better-structured-data-in-open-food-facts/2209)
**Author:** [@manoncorneille](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/manoncorneille)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2026, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/richer-and-better-structured-data-in-open-food-facts/2209 "2026-06-16T06:47:48Z")
Hi everyone! :waving\_hand: We’ve just published a new blog post that details a major step forward for the project: we’re upgrading our nutrition data scheme! :link: Read the full post here: https://blog.openfoodfacts.o… --- ## [New tags data model and API features](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/new-tags-data-model-and-api-features/2278)
**Author:** [@stephane](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/stephane)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/new-tags-data-model-and-api-features/2278 "2026-06-02T09:49:00Z")
Product tags likes categories, labels, allergens, origins and many more are one of the most widely used features of Open Food Facts. They make it easy to search, group and explore products, and they are also needed to co… --- ## [Help Open Food Facts infrastructure stay afloat!](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/help-open-food-facts-infrastructure-stay-afloat/2232)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/help-open-food-facts-infrastructure-stay-afloat/2232 "2026-05-20T08:30:26Z")
Dear community, Since yesterday, we are raising funds to help Open Food Facts finish its year. We hope that you’ll be able to support us whether by spreading the word or by donating if you can. Thank you ! :dizzy: F… --- ## [Open Prices Summer Challenge #3 ☀️](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/open-prices-summer-challenge-3/1998)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/open-prices-summer-challenge-3/1998 "2025-07-04T10:01:52Z")
The summer has melted its way in :sun::smiling\_face\_with\_sunglasses: and so has the coolest Open Prices community challenge yet! This time, we’re scooping up contributors to help collect prices on some summer essenti… --- ## [Launch of new product images schema and new API to retrieve, upload and select images](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/launch-of-new-product-images-schema-and-new-api-to-retrieve-upload-and-select-images/1982)
**Author:** [@stephane](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/stephane)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/launch-of-new-product-images-schema-and-new-api-to-retrieve-upload-and-select-images/1982 "2025-06-13T12:46:49Z")
In the past months, we have been working on a project called Pomme d’API to improve and simplify the Open Food Facts API. We submitted this project to the NGI Zero Commons call and we were delighted that it was selected … --- ## [Join the Prices Challenge💰](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/join-the-prices-challenge/887)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/join-the-prices-challenge/887 "2025-02-12T15:52:20Z")
Community :wave:, Open Prices has launched this week its first community challenge and we’re looking for contributors to collect prices on Nutella and other hazelnut spreads :chocolate\_bar: :chestnut:. Check out the cha… --- ## [Open Food Facts Days 2025 brainstorm](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/open-food-facts-days-2025-brainstorm/914)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/open-food-facts-days-2025-brainstorm/914 "2025-02-04T14:50:40Z")
Hello! Please join the discussion about our next Open Food Facts Days 2025 :tangerine: ! Let’s come up with the date, place, program together. :page\_facing\_up: You’ll find a collaborative doc here, feel free to add you… --- ## [Our community will match you donation from 17-19th December 2024!](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/our-community-will-match-you-donation-from-17-19th-december-2024/754)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/our-community-will-match-you-donation-from-17-19th-december-2024/754 "2024-12-20T16:35:53Z")
INCRE-DOUBLE ! :star\_struck: Your donation to the Open Food Facts non-profit association is so important to our community members that they’ll be doubling it from 17 to 19 December! Our community members devote count… --- ## [You are invited to partticipate to the project around API redesign](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/you-are-invited-to-partticipate-to-the-project-around-api-redesign/696)
**Author:** [@alex](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/you-are-invited-to-partticipate-to-the-project-around-api-redesign/696 "2024-11-06T14:01:53Z")
We will be running a project to improve the current API and make it more easy to use. We would like to invite you to join us to shape this future. Find more info at New project to improve the API is starting: Pomme d’AP… --- ## [Please support Open Food Facts in 2024-2025](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/please-support-open-food-facts-in-2024-2025/678)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/please-support-open-food-facts-in-2024-2025/678 "2024-10-23T14:34:20Z")
Hello readers of our forum :smiley: As every year, we are embarking on a new season of fundraising for our non-profit organisation Open Food Facts. :free: Everything Open Food Facts produces & makes available to consum… --- ## [Eco-Score update, with 2 new letters](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/eco-score-update-with-2-new-letters/677)
**Author:** [@alex](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2024, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/eco-score-update-with-2-new-letters/677 "2024-10-23T08:24:54Z")
if you are using the Eco-Score grade that we compute for products, please note that we will soon be deploying updates to the #ecoscore algorithm. The most visible is that there are 2 new letters: A+ and F so that we can … --- ## [New normalization of barcodes](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/new-normalization-of-barcodes/676)
**Author:** [@alex](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/alex)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/new-normalization-of-barcodes/676 "2024-10-23T08:20:53Z")
Hello Everyone, in the last few weeks, we have been deduplicating a lot of products that were present multiple times in the database, with an id (barcode) that differed only by the number of leading 0s. (e.g. 1048030026… --- ## [Christmas cheer!](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/christmas-cheer/468)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/christmas-cheer/468 "2023-12-25T19:37:55Z")
Fa-La-la-la-la :notes: :christmas\_tree: Dear members of Open Food Facts, A hearty THANK YOU on the behalf of the permanent team to you all! Thank you for what you bring to the table, for the time spent on growing and… --- ## [Support Open Food Facts this #GivingTuesday](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/support-open-food-facts-this-givingtuesday/445)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/support-open-food-facts-this-givingtuesday/445 "2023-11-28T15:33:54Z")
On #GivingTuesday, the world celebrates generosity of people who support various non-profits around the world :love\_letter:. Open Food Facts would like to invite you to join our non-profit organisation in leading cha… --- ## [Blog post: Italia, here we come! A look back at our presence at CIBUS](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/blog-post-italia-here-we-come-a-look-back-at-our-presence-at-cibus/203)
**Author:** [@VaiTon](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/VaiTon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/blog-post-italia-here-we-come-a-look-back-at-our-presence-at-cibus/203 "2023-04-12T14:58:37Z")
After Germany, the next stop is Italy :pizza: 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 … --- ## [Helps us collect detailed packaging data (number, shape, material and weight) for food products in your country!](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/helps-us-collect-detailed-packaging-data-number-shape-material-and-weight-for-food-products-in-your-country/136)
**Author:** [@stephane](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/stephane)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/helps-us-collect-detailed-packaging-data-number-shape-material-and-weight-for-food-products-in-your-country/136 "2023-02-10T15:15:35Z")
Hi Everyone! With the help of ADEME, the French National Agency for Environmental Transition, we structured the data we collect on food products packaging to make it much more precise. For each component of the packagin… --- ## [Open Food Facts gets a new visual identity!](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/open-food-facts-gets-a-new-visual-identity/88)
**Author:** [@Gala](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/u/Gala)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/open-food-facts-gets-a-new-visual-identity/88 "2022-05-26T19:34:53Z")
2022 is particularly special for us, because Open Food Facts is turning 10! In 10 years and a few feats later: :earth\_africa: Open Food Facts is now in 182 countries, :chocolate\_bar: with 2.3 million food products on …