Food Safety and Inspection Service

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is a branch of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products. FSIS publishes a Recall API that provides machine-readable access to recall and public health alert records.

Food Safety and Inspection Service publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Recalls API. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Food, Food Safety, Inspections, and Recalls.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Food Safety and Inspection Service’s developer surface includes documentation and 5 more developer resources.

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35.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Federal GovernmentFoodFood SafetyInspectionsRecallsMeatPoultryEggs

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 35.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Food Safety And Inspection Service Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Recalls

Recalls

Source (apis.yml)

aid: food-safety-and-inspection-service
name: Food Safety and Inspection Service
description: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is a branch of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products. FSIS publishes
  a Recall API that provides machine-readable access to recall and public health alert records.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/food-safety-and-inspection-service.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consumer
tags:
- Federal Government
- Food
- Food Safety
- Inspections
- Recalls
- Meat
- Poultry
- Eggs
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-safety-and-inspection-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: food-safety-and-inspection-service:food-safety-and-inspection-service-recalls-api
  name: Food Safety and Inspection Service Recalls API
  description: FSIS recall and public health alert records.
  humanURL: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/developer-resources/recall-api
  baseURL: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/fsis/api
  tags:
  - Recalls
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-safety-and-inspection-service-recalls-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/developer-resources/recall-api
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-safety-and-inspection-service/refs/heads/main/capabilities/fsis-recall-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-safety-and-inspection-service/refs/heads/main/rules/fsis-recall-rules.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/food-safety-and-inspection-service-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/food-safety-and-inspection-service-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-fsis
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/developer-resources/recall-api
- type: Recalls
  url: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Kin Score

APIs 1

Food Safety and Inspection Service Recalls API

Open Collections 1

FSIS Recall API

Pricing Plans 1

Food Safety And Inspection Service Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Food Safety And Inspection Service Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Food Safety And Inspection Service Finops

Spectral Rules 1

Food Safety and Inspection Service API Rules

Security Posture 1

Food Safety And Inspection Service Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Food Safety And Inspection Service Agentic Access