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Economy

Licensed Food Factories, (End Of Period), Annual

Data from Jan 1993 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:31 SGT

SFA (Singapore Food Agency)

Data explorer

LicensedFoodFactoriesEndOfPeriodAnnual.csv (28 rows, 372 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	No of food factories Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	1940
2019	1850
2018	1802
2017	1755
2016	1678
2015	1628
2014	1,547
2013	1,496
2012	1,471
2011	1,412

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	Financial Year
No of food factories	no_of_food_factories	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3995b7317bd9b550f814b117efde0097"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Food Agency. (2015). Licensed Food Factories, (End Of Period), Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 22, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3995b7317bd9b550f814b117efde0097/view

About this dataset

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Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SFA (Singapore Food Agency)