The VisibleFood project is a website and database created to give researchers as well as potential consumers an overview of political and environmental issues related to certain food products.

The database is searchable by product, brand, company, ingredient or toxin and enables users to look up such things as a company's labour politics or whether a product is likely to contain genetically modified organisms etc.

VisibleFood is designed as an open content system that allows users to submit new information to the database (although the website is not yet fully functional).

• www.visiblefood.org