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MCP Food Hygiene Tool

Find food establishments and search FSA allergy alerts, product recalls, and food alerts for action. Data is sourced from the Food Standards Agency and reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Each tool call costs 10 credits. The tool is read-only and idempotent.

Tool Description Parameters
lookup_food_hygiene Search UK Food Standards Agency hygiene ratings by business name, postcode, local authority, rating, or business type. Supports numeric FHRS ratings and Scotland's textual FHIS results. name string
postcode string
authority string
rating string
business_type string

Related Resources

No MCP resources for this domain — use the tools above; see the govdata:// resources index.

Related Prompts

No MCP prompts are registered for this domain — call the tools above directly; see the prompts index.

Food-alert search is a parameterised read-only tool. No MCP prompt was added because it is not a multi-step workflow; no resource was added because alerts are changing query results rather than a small stable reference document.

Data Coverage

Source: Food Standards Agency open data.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.

Coverage: Local-authority feeds for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, refreshed daily; each authority controls when ratings are submitted or changed.

Caveats: Rating values remain strings because FHRS and Scotland's FHIS use different schemes.