The LEGAL sheet in OpenFoodTox 3.0 contains 8 records defining the legal entities (organisations) that own substances or sponsor dossiers in the dataset.
8 Entities
| UUID (prefix) | Name | Type | SUB count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4f88bc7f | Predefined Legal entity | (placeholder) | 0 |
| bee4cfab | EFSA | regulatory authority | 0 |
| 2d8236d4 | Lhasa | (None) | 0 |
| acc9d519 | IRFMN | company | 0 |
| 6c9cfc6a | S-IN | company | 0 |
| de4513a0 | MN-AM | company | 0 |
| 29cbe20b | EFSA OpenFoodTox | regulatory authority | 7880 |
Critical findings
EFSA OpenFoodTox owns 100% of substances
The entity 29cbe20b ("EFSA OpenFoodTox", type "regulatory authority") is the OwnerLegalEntity for all 7880 SUB entries in the SUB sheet (100%). This is expected — OpenFoodTox is the aggregated EFSA knowledge base and lists every substance within EFSA's regulatory jurisdiction.
Other 6 companies have no SUB in this snapshot
IRFMN (acc9d519), S-IN (6c9cfc6a), MN-AM (de4513a0) are labelled as "company" but have 0 SUB entries under their direct ownership. They likely appear as:
- Sponsor / submitting companies at the dossier
level (i.e. they commissioned dossiers and filed them with EFSA, but EFSA OpenFoodTox owns the consolidated substance record)
- These company names need cross-reference against the
DOSSIER sheet's applicant/sponsor fields (not in scope of this scan).
Lhasa — Vega-tier data provider?
"Lhasa" (2d8236d4, no type) is the Lhasa Limited organisation — a known chemical informatics company providing curated toxicology data (Vega, Derek, Mirabilis). Their appearance suggests OpenFoodTox 3.0 includes toxicity predictions derived from Lhasa's software tools in some dossiers.
"Predefined Legal entity" placeholder
UUID 4f88bc7f is a meta-entity: a placeholder used in schemas where a real OwnerLegalEntity is unknown. EU OFT3.0 retains it for schema completeness.
Pet food relevance
This is mainly administrative metadata. Pet food manufacturers needing to:
- Identify the dossier sponsor for a feed additive
(IRFMN, S-IN, MN-AM) should look up the company's role in the relevant DOSSIER sheet — the dossier applicant field is the legal entity responsible for submitting the safety/ efficacy data.
- File a new dossier for a novel vitamin or mineral
will require sponsorship through one of these company entities, but the dossier record level — not the SUB level — is where the company name matters.
Gaps & follow-up
- 8 entities is a small universe for the entire EU
feed additive register — many companies sponsor dossiers but don't directly own SUB entries. The full applicant landscape is in DOSSIER.Applicant / Sponsor fields which were not joined in this scan.
- Lhasa as data provider is a hypothesis — confirm
by cross-reference with DOSSIER applicant fields or any data-source attribution columns.
Source
toxicology/efsa/OFT3.0_export_repository.xlsx sheet LEGAL. 8 rows scanned; SUB ownership join via SUB.OwnerLegalEntity field.
Verified 2026-07-20.