Research and standards for product information.

Product information is often recorded in fragments: labels, certificates, trade documents, origin records, and traceability systems. Each serves a defined function. Together, they do not always produce usable product understanding.

Altibbé is a research-and-standards organisation for product information. Its work begins with health-relevant information in food and agriculture — where the gap between recorded data and usable product understanding is especially consequential.

What Altibbé is

Altibbé is a research-and-standards organisation developing disclosure standards for producer-declared product information. Its research examines structural gaps in how product information is created, fragmented, and lost across food and agriculture systems.

What Altibbé does not do

Altibbé does not certify, verify, approve, audit, or operate disclosure systems. It develops research, terminology, and standards for structured product disclosure.

Why this matters

Decisions about health, procurement, trade, and market access often depend on records created for narrower purposes. The result is not an absence of information, but a loss of usable product understanding.

Altibbé's current research begins with food and agriculture, where health-relevant information is both consequential and unevenly carried.

Research programme

Structural Gaps in Product Information Systems

SGPIS series · Catalogue ongoing

Each paper studies a different system. Across them, the same finding recurs: each system performs its defined function, but product understanding does not consistently travel across them.

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Across the published SGPIS papers, three distinctions recur.

Meeting a standard is not the same as being understood.

Knowing where a product has been is not the same as knowing what it is.

Documentation does not automatically become product understanding.

Research outputs

Beyond the papers.

Between the operational records that already exist and the product-level understanding institutions need, the research identifies a missing layer. Two outputs address it.

A schematic of the disclosure layer: six operational documentation systems above a portable product profile band that sits as the disclosure layer beneath them.
Institutional note

The Gap Between Information That Exists and Information That Travels

Names the structural distinction between operational documentation and the product-level account that institutions increasingly need.

Read note →Disclosure standard

HEDAMO

An applied disclosure standard for producer-declared product information. In development.

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Institutional correspondence

For research correspondence, institutional briefings, publication inquiries, or scoped research engagement.

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