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FoodOn

Ontology / Vocabulary Food openly published

The need to represent knowledge about food is central to many human activities including agriculture, medicine, food safety inspection, shopping patterns, and sustainable development. FoodOn is an ontology – a controlled vocabulary which can be used by both people and computers – to name all parts of animals, plants, and fungai which can bear a food role for humans and domesticated animals, as well as derived food products and the processes used to make them....

FoodOn Consortium / OBO Foundry, from their own opening paragraph

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FDA FSMA 204 Food Traceability Key Data Elements Information Model LanguaL Code System
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Steward FoodOn Consortium / OBO Foundry
Origin International
Layer Ontology / Vocabulary
Domain Food
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 1/1. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

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Access Open
Assessed 53.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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