{
  "name": "US Grocery Category Safety Scores (PlainFoodSafe)",
  "description": "Average ingredient-flag safety score and flagged-product share for the largest US grocery categories, computed from Open Food Facts product records scored against FDA SAFFA regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings.",
  "landingPage": "https://plainfoodsafe.com/data/category-safety",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseNote": "PlainFoodSafe compilation: CC BY 4.0, reuse with attribution. Underlying Open Food Facts product records remain licensed ODbL 1.0. FDA SAFFA and CSPI ratings retain their own terms.",
  "source": {
    "name": "Open Food Facts",
    "url": "https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data",
    "license": "ODbL 1.0"
  },
  "assessments": [
    {
      "name": "FDA SAFFA",
      "url": "https://www.fda.gov/"
    },
    {
      "name": "CSPI Chemical Cuisine",
      "url": "https://www.cspi.org/page/chemical-cuisine-food-additive-safety-ratings"
    }
  ],
  "dataVintage": "2026-08-02",
  "scoreDefinition": "A 0-100 score derived from the count of flagged additives in a product’s parsed ingredient list. Higher is fewer flags.",
  "caveats": [
    "The score counts flagged ingredients. It is not a health assessment, a nutrition rating, or a claim that any product is unsafe to eat.",
    "Category averages hide wide within-category variation: every category contains both flagged and unflagged products.",
    "Open Food Facts categories are contributor-assigned and overlap, so a product can sit in more than one.",
    "Flags reproduce third-party assessments with attribution; they are not PlainFoodSafe opinions."
  ],
  "citation": "PlainFoodSafe, \"US Grocery Category Safety Scores\", https://plainfoodsafe.com/data/category-safety",
  "downloads": {
    "csv": "https://plainfoodsafe.com/category-safety.csv",
    "table": "https://plainfoodsafe.com/category-safety"
  },
  "rowCount": 8,
  "rows": [
    {
      "name": "Snacks",
      "product_count": 95697,
      "avg_score": 86.1,
      "pct_flagged": 25.5,
      "concern_level": "Moderate"
    },
    {
      "name": "Plant-based foods and beverages",
      "product_count": 94457,
      "avg_score": 97.7,
      "pct_flagged": 7.4,
      "concern_level": "Minimal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Plant-based foods",
      "product_count": 79878,
      "avg_score": 97.8,
      "pct_flagged": 6.6,
      "concern_level": "Minimal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sweet snacks",
      "product_count": 54315,
      "avg_score": 79.6,
      "pct_flagged": 34.3,
      "concern_level": "Moderate-High"
    },
    {
      "name": "Beverages",
      "product_count": 50151,
      "avg_score": 90.5,
      "pct_flagged": 20.3,
      "concern_level": "Low"
    },
    {
      "name": "Condiments",
      "product_count": 35578,
      "avg_score": 98.3,
      "pct_flagged": 12.6,
      "concern_level": "Minimal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cereals and potatoes",
      "product_count": 32200,
      "avg_score": 96,
      "pct_flagged": 11.6,
      "concern_level": "Minimal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Groceries",
      "product_count": 28111,
      "avg_score": 98.3,
      "pct_flagged": 14.4,
      "concern_level": "Minimal"
    }
  ]
}