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OpenFDA Search Food Enforcement

Search the FDA food enforcement (recall) database via openFDA. Contains food recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts. Use Lucene query syntax: 'classification:"Class I"' (most serious), 'status:Ongoing', 'recalling_firm:"Company Name"'. Returns recall details including product description, reason for recall, distribution pattern, and classification. Useful for food safety research, supply chain analysis, and identifying contamination patterns.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 503msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 503ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "count": {
      "description": "Field to count by (e.g., 'classification', 'state', 'recalling_firm.exact')",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of results (default 5, max 100)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "search": {
      "description": "Lucene query for food recalls (e.g., 'classification:\"Class I\"', 'reason_for_recall:salmonella', 'status:Ongoing', 'product_description:peanut'). Leave null to get recent recalls.",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default OpenFDA Search Food Enforcement call

public-safeinput

{}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_OpenFDA_search_food_enforcement
Tool name: OpenFDA_search_food_enforcement
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

OpenFDA Search Food Enforcement

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 503msCortexa

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{ "properties": { "count": { "description": "Field to count by (e.g., 'classification', 'state', 'recalling_firm.exact')", "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "limit": { "description": "Maximum number of results (default 5, max 100)", "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "search": { "description": "Lucene query for food recalls (e.g., 'classification:\"Class I\"', 'reason_for_recall:salmonella', 'status:Ongoing', 'product_description:peanut'). Leave null to get recent recalls.", "type": [ "string", "null" ] } }, "required": [], "type": "object" }