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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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21.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Federal-GovernmentFoodFood SafetyInspectionsRecallsMeatPoultryEggs

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 21.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 11.1 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 5.8 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4
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APIs 1

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

Food Safety and Inspection Service Recalls API

FSIS recall and public health alert records.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

FSIS Recall Recalls API

OPEN COLLECTION

FSIS Recall API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Food Safety And Inspection Service Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Food Safety And Inspection Service Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Food Safety and Inspection Service API Rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Food Safety And Inspection Service Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Food Safety And Inspection Service Agentic Access

1 operation

1 operations · 0 acting

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
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Recalls
Recalls

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
tags_raw:
- 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: '0.23'
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