The Ingredient Facts mark, panel format and technical specification are licensed together as a single package. This page sets out what every license includes, how the two tracks differ, and how the standard is governed as it versions forward.
Who: food and beverage manufacturers and brand owners, from single-category regional brands to national portfolios.
Terms: per company, annual. No per-render or per-impression charges. The license is proportionate to the company, so a twelve-SKU regional brand and a twelve-hundred-SKU portfolio both license sensibly.
What you are buying: differentiation and defect detection. A verified panel where competitors show a text blob, plus monitoring that flags broken renderings of your statements across retail listings before shoppers find them.
Onboarding: statement parsing and catalog conversion, mark usage review, then panels live on your product pages and packaging artwork within the same term.
Who: grocery and food retail chains, e-commerce platforms, and product-data providers who syndicate ingredient data downstream.
Terms: enterprise, annual. One license covers every SKU displayed, regardless of which supplier provided the data.
What you are buying: infrastructure. One consistent, trustworthy ingredient display across tens or hundreds of thousands of product pages. The ingredient list stops being a data-quality liability.
Compliance reporting: ingredient data that fails the spec anywhere in the catalog is flagged and delivered as reports, so defects get fixed at the source.
IF-SPEC follows semantic versioning. Breaking changes carry a notice period during which superseded revisions remain valid; licensees receive every changelog.
The mark may only appear on panels rendered by the licensed embed or to the licensed spec. A lapsed license means the mark comes down; that is what keeps it worth displaying.
Licensed panels become canonical records so the display stays consistent everywhere; formulations and business terms behind the label stay yours.
Because the panel is a claim, not just a layout. An open format anyone can imitate cannot guarantee that the data behind a given panel was parsed to spec. The license is the trust mechanism, the same reason established certification marks are licensed rather than published.
No. A platform license covers rendering panels from the ingredient data a retailer already lawfully displays. Brand licenses add the mark on pack, defect monitoring, and the brand’s own verified panels.
A data feed of your ingredient statements, or a CSV export if that's easier. Parsing it into the standard's canonical record is part of every license.
Embedded panels re-render automatically; printed panels follow the notice period. Licensees never pay separately for a revision.