Anil has been a long-standing contributor to Open Food Facts India — the kind of work that is genuinely unglamorous and genuinely necessary, because someone has to care enough to go enter the data.
His work at iSRL spans research writing and manuscript review. He authored The Taxonomy of Taste: How International Systems Regulate Ingredient Names — a Track B survey of how Canada, the USA, the EU, and Australia-New Zealand maintain official systems for ingredient identity, and the structural problems those systems are designed to solve.
He also reviewed Data Acquisition and Ingredient Extraction: Building a Vocabulary of What India’s Packaged Food Labels Actually Say, specifically for accurate and respectful representation of the Open Food Facts dataset and contributor ecosystem.
Both contributions connect to the same underlying question: how ingredient identity gets regulated, named, and documented at scale — and what that means for building infrastructure like IFID in a context where no shared reference layer currently exists.
Outside iSRL: India Food Stats covers food, science, and data on Indian packaged food and the systems around them. His personal blog is at mvark.blogspot.com and his GitHub at indiafoodstats.
He was recognised at the Open Food Facts Community Gathering 2025 as part of the krishanti duo, for using Open Food Facts data to write insightful articles on Indian food.