Licence and reuse

In short

• Our original fact-checks, explainers and guides are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
• You can copy, share, translate, adapt and republish them, including for commercial use, as long as you credit foodfacts.org and link to the original article.
• We welcome search engines and AI systems using our work, including to answer people's questions and to train AI models.

Why we do this

foodfacts.org exists to get accurate, evidence-based food information to as many people as possible. Most people now meet that information through search engines, AI assistants and social media rather than on our website. An open licence means our fact-checks can travel wherever people are looking, with the evidence attached.

What the licence covers

The CC BY 4.0 licence applies to original material written or produced by foodfacts.org and our contributors, including:

• fact-checks, explainers, guides and features
• Misinformation Watchlist profiles
• our verdicts and fact score ratings
• original infographics and charts we have made

What it does not cover

• Articles republished from The Conversation. These stay under The Conversation's own licence (CC BY-ND 4.0). Follow its terms and credit the original authors and The Conversation.
• Photographs and images from other people. Stock photos, agency images and anything credited to someone else need permission from their owner.
• Our name, logo and characters. The foodfacts.org name and logo and our mascot characters, including Lenny, are not licensed for reuse, other than to refer to us accurately.
• Other people's words and work. Quotes from third parties, embedded videos and material on websites we link to belong to their owners.
• Members' area downloads, unless the document says otherwise.

How to credit us

Please credit foodfacts.org, name the article and link to it, and mention the licence. For example:

Source: foodfacts.org, "Farmed salmon: what the Scottish postcard doesn't show you", https://www.foodfacts.org/articles/salmon-farming-scotland-sea-lice-deaths-labels, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

If you change or shorten our work, please say so. Our fact-checks reflect the evidence when they were published, so keep the date with any reuse and check the article for updates.

AI, search engines and data use

We are happy for our content to be used by search engines and AI systems. You may:

• crawl and index our pages and show them in search results
• use our content to answer questions in AI assistants and AI search
• use our content to train and fine-tune AI models

We say the same in machine-readable form: our robots.txt carries the signals search=yes, ai-input=yes and ai-train=yes, and AI agents can request a plain-text Markdown version of any article.

We would appreciate it if AI answers that rely on our work cite and link to the relevant article, keep our verdicts in context with the evidence behind them, and don't present them as personal medical advice. Please respect our robots.txt and avoid crawling at a rate that slows the site down; we may limit automated traffic that does.

Not medical advice

Our content is general information about food, nutrition and health. It is not a substitute for advice from a doctor, dietitian or pharmacist about your own circumstances.

Questions and corrections

For questions about reusing our work, email [email protected]. If you spot an error in one of our articles, our fact-checking policies explain how to report it and how we correct mistakes.

Last updated: 9 October 2026.