Data sources

Techvora

Licence:

Proprietary — FoodSignal's own work

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

Yes

Records created or verified by FoodSignal staff, and contributions assigned to us under the contribution terms. The proprietary core.

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

Licence:

Public domain (US Government work)

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

No

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central.

Public domain, so it can sit in the proprietary core. Provenance is still recorded even though attribution is not legally required. Generic reference foods are kept strictly apart from branded packaged products — a USDA generic nutrient profile must never be attached to a branded supermarket product because the names look similar.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland

Licence:

Reference only — terms not reviewed for bulk reuse

We import records:

No — reference only

We copy images:

No

Consulted for Irish allergen and labelling guidance and for food alerts. Marked import_permitted = false: it is a reference we read, not a dataset we ingest, until the reuse terms have been reviewed properly.

European Union

Licence:

CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU)

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

No

© European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu, 1998–2026

The EU positive list for additives and the Annex I functional classes. FoodSignal cites it for what an additive is authorised to do, never for a safety opinion.

European Union

Licence:

CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU)

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

No

© European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu, 1998–2026

The legal conditions for 'source of fibre', 'high protein' and similar. Because these are the statutory tests, FoodSignal can state them as fact rather than opinion.

European Union

Licence:

CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU)

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

No

© European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu, 1998–2026

Source of the Annex II allergen list, the mandatory nutrition declaration, the salt/sodium conversion factor and the high-caffeine threshold. Reuse of EUR-Lex material is authorised under Decision 2011/833/EU; only the printed Official Journal is authentic.

Department of Health and Social Care / Food Standards Agency

Licence:

Open Government Licence v3.0

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

No

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The low/medium/high thresholds FoodSignal uses for fat, saturates, sugars and salt. Voluntary UK guidance — labelled as such wherever it appears, and never presented as an EU or Irish requirement.

Open Food Facts (association, France)

Licence:

Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 — database; DbCL — contents; CC BY-SA — images

We import records:

Yes

We copy images:

No

Contains information from Open Food Facts, available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Used to bootstrap coverage, not as a permanent dependency. Product facts are imported and tagged; images are never copied because they carry a different, stricter licence than the database does. Open Food Facts asks for an identifying User-Agent and rate-limits product reads.