Source transparency

Data sources and licences

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

Two data layers, kept separate

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

Open Food Facts

External catalogue identity, revision metadata, and declared manufacturing or ingredient origins may come from Open Food Facts. Declared origins can inform the estimated meter and remain attributed to their source.

Open Food Facts does not endorse ScanCan.

Machine-readable access

Download the current normalized OFF-derived external catalogue layer. It excludes ScanCan 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

ScanCan 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.

ScanCan material

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

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

Package identity references

Supplied packaging can identify a missing product. Only product details are retained; personal labels and photographs are excluded. Identification alone does not establish Canadian ownership or manufacture.

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