# Food Safety and Inspection Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/food-safety-and-inspection-service/  
**Website:** https://www.fsis.usda.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 21.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 52.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Food Safety and Inspection Service Recalls API** — FSIS recall and public health alert records.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Food Safety And Inspection Service Agentic Access** — 1 operation

## Security (1)

- **Food Safety And Inspection Service Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Food Safety And Inspection Service Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, Food, Food Safety, Inspections, Recalls, Meat, Poultry, Eggs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/food-safety-and-inspection-service/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.