Source transparency

Data sources and licences

TrueNorth keeps external product identity separate from reviewed Canadian evidence and scoring.

Two data layers, kept separate

Open Food Facts may identify a product. TrueNorth Claims, Evidence, relationships, and Canadian Impact calculations are independently governed and are not Open Food Facts product data.

Open Food Facts

External catalogue names, raw brand text, package size, categories, market tags, GTIN identity, and source revision metadata may come from Open Food Facts. Those fields remain attributed to their source.

Open Food Facts does not endorse TrueNorth.

Machine-readable access

Download the current normalized OFF-derived external catalogue layer. It excludes TrueNorth Claims, Evidence, scores, relationships, review records, Admin data, and images.

Newline-delimited JSON (JSONL), deterministically ordered, with a licence record first.

Download OFF-derived catalogue

Product images

TrueNorth does not display Open Food Facts images in the public beta external-identity flow. OFF image references remain non-public provenance unless separate rights review permits use.

TrueNorth material

TrueNorth application code, independently sourced governed evidence, editorial analysis, and scoring remain separate. No new licence is asserted here for TrueNorth-owned material.

This page describes TrueNorth’s engineering posture and is not legal advice.
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