FSA Food Alerts API
FSA Food Alerts API
The UK Food Standards Agency's Food Alerts API gives keyless access to allergy alerts, product recall information notices and food alerts for action, as JSON, CSV, HTML and RDF (data.food.gov.uk). Distinct from the FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme API (fsa-food-hygiene-ratings-api).
Required Attribution:
Required under OGL v3.0: acknowledge the source of the Information and, where possible, link to the licence. If no specific attribution statement is given, the licence's default is: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."
Coverage
The API documentation says: "The FSA Food Alerts API provides access to current and recent Food Alerts: Allergy Alerts (AA), Product Recall Information Notices (PRIN) and Food Alerts for Action (FAFA)." Alerts are business- and product-level. History start and update frequency: Not stated.
Verdict
Keyless REST API (data.food.gov.uk/food-alerts) for UK FSA allergy alerts, product recall information notices and food alerts for action. Licensed OGL-UK-3.0: the API's JSON metadata gives "licenseName":"OGL 3" and the documentation footer says: "All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated." Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.
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