Data Sources — Fibo

Last updated: September 2026

Fibo's Pantry looks up the dog food you scan and scores its ingredient list. The product facts behind that come from the sources below. Ingredient scores are computed on your device from the printed ingredient list and guaranteed analysis using published AAFCO, FDA and NRC guidance; every rule shows its citation in the app.

Open Pet Food Facts

Product names, barcodes, ingredient lists, guaranteed analyses and photos for many products come from Open Pet Food Facts, a free, collaborative database. This data is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; individual contents are available under the Database Contents License, and product images under CC BY-SA 3.0. Products sourced this way are labelled "Open Pet Food Facts" in the app. Corrections you submit through Fibo are stored by Fibo and are not sent back to Open Pet Food Facts.

Brand websites

For brands that publish their ingredient panels online, Fibo's catalogue reads the public product pages of the manufacturer's own website (respecting robots.txt, at a polite rate). Each product shows a link to the page it was read from. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners; Fibo is not affiliated with or endorsed by any pet food manufacturer.

Barcode title lookups

When a barcode is unknown to us, we may query the free tier of UPCitemdb for the product's title and brand, and match that to a product already in our catalogue. Only the barcode is sent.

Recall alerts

Recall notices come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration: the FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals & Safety Alerts feed and the FDA Animal & Veterinary recalls & withdrawals list, checked every 15 minutes. Fibo reads each notice to pull out brand, product names and UPCs; the original FDA page is always linked and is the authority. FDA content is in the public domain. Fibo is not affiliated with the FDA and an alert is not a diagnosis — always follow the instructions in the notice itself.

Nutrition science

Scoring rules cite the AAFCO consumer guide to reading labels, the FDA pet food labelling pages, the National Research Council's Your Dog's Nutritional Needs, the WSAVA Global Nutrition Guidelines, and the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (Title 21) for additives.

Contact

Spotted a wrong product fact or a missing attribution? Contact us via the App Store listing's support link.