hey @gbriano, Pierre from Open Food Facts.
This is a topic (defragmentation of recalls worldwide) we're very interested by.
Would you be interested in joining the Open Food Facts/Open Products Facts community ?
https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Product_Recalls
Hi Josh:
Pierre, Open Food Facts NGO co-founder.
1. Generic, non-branded foods & 2. Simple prepared foods that ease food entry:
Those two could be solved in a deterministic way, and we'd be happy for a separate Open Food Facts hosted API endpoint (basically a small backend serving a combination of all national generic databases), or improvement to the core software
3. Restaurant foods
- Open Prices (our effort to collect geo-located prices on products) could be an entry point to collect menus, and potentially estimate nutrition for food in restaurants, since we have support for products without barcode.
4. Micronutrients beyond those reported by the brand.
- We have an issue to propose approximation of micro-nutrients from reputable database: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues...
Hi, Pierre, Open Food Facts NGO co-founder. We have an issue to propose approximation of micro-nutrients from reputable database. Feel free to join the project and contribute your time/coding skills to help us solve this: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/issues...
Hello, Pierre co-founder of the Open Food Facts NGO. We have a multi-year AI effort you can help with. https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Artificial_Intelligence
We have weekly community meetings, compute to get things rolling, and a swell/quick from Test to Production and Impact loop :-)
We need a modern opensource barcode reader. The best thing (zxing) is in maintenance mode, and the newer barcode scanners with niceties like neural scan, 90% scan, bortched barcode scan are all closed source.
Feel free to ping me at pierre openfoodfacts.org
We have a online discussion chat, if you want to integrate OFF at some point, and have questions about the OdBL
No, no worries about personal consumption. What the OdBL requires you to do is to add missing products. Not add data outside the scope of the original database.
(I'm a Open Food Facts admin)
Also please don't scrape us, since we release nightly dumps of the DB :)
Open Food Facts ranks all products from A to E, using the French Nutriscore. It helps you compare products within a category, and get a general sense of how bad the product is, nutrition wise.
You're in luck, we've just imported 175K Open Data products from the USDA, so it now works in the US :-)
Also it's collaborative, so please take pictures as you scan products :)
lthough Open Food Facts went from 100k to 300k products in just a few months, indexing all the food in the world proves to be a sizeable challenge: there are still millions of products not yet indexed all over the world.
As a result, we decided to focus on a task easier to achieve: Pet Food. And while we love all pets equally, in order to make our objective reachable, we have to focus only on one kind of pet: dogs, or cats or birds, etc.
But the good news is that you get to decide which pet that is, by participating in our worldwide competition:
1 New Pet Food uploaded to Open Pet Food Facts = 1 Vote for the Pet Food type of your choice
