German Food Recalls & Warnings Monitor (lebensmittelwarnung.de)

Get every official German food and consumer-product warning as structured data, or only the new ones since your last run. Each warning comes as one clean row. It includes:

• product and brand
• manufacturer or distributor
• batch or lot number
• best-before or use-by date
• packaging
• the reason (Salmonella, Listeria, foreign bodies, undeclared allergens, harmful substances …), in German and English
• the affected German states
• the state that issued the warning
• the company's recall contact and product images
• the official warning link

The data comes from lebensmittelwarnung.de, the joint warning portal of the German states and the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL).

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "Are there current recalls for sesame products?", "Which food warnings affect Bavaria this month?" or "Alert me about new Listeria recalls". Pass query, reasons, states or publishedSince. For alerts, schedule the Actor with onlyNewSinceLastRun: true.

Price: $5 per 1,000 warnings ($0.005 per result). A monitoring run with nothing new costs nothing for results.

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What you get

Field	Example
id	261002_03_BY_Sesampaste
publishedAt	2026-10-02T14:52:00.000Z
title, product	Sesampaste (Tahina), 12x800 Gramm, … Marke: Chtoura Garden …
manufacturer	Tema Fine Foods
reasons, reasonsEn	["Krankheitserreger"], ["pathogen"]
batch, shelfLife, packaging	L#80 925 TF, Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum: EXP 10-2027, 12x800 Gramm
affectedStates	["Baden-Württemberg","Bayern","Berlin", …]
issuingState	Bayern (or Bund (BVL))
contact	{ text, emails, phone, website }, the company's recall contact
images	Official product photos (URLs)
url, source	Official warning page and attribution

Example record (real output, long fields shortened):

{
  "id": "261002_03_BY_Sesampaste",
  "title": "Sesampaste (Tahina), 12x800 Gramm",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-02T14:52:00.000Z",
  "product": "Sesampaste (Tahina), Marke: Chtoura Garden, 12x800 Gramm",
  "manufacturer": "Tema Fine Foods",
  "reasons": [
    "Krankheitserreger"
  ],
  "reasonsEn": [
    "pathogen"
  ],
  "shelfLife": "Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum: EXP 10-2027",
  "batch": "L#80 925 TF",
  "packaging": "12x800 Gramm",
  "affectedStates": [
    "Baden-Württemberg",
    "Bayern",
    "Berlin"
  ],
  "issuingState": "Bayern",
  "contact": {
    "text": "Tema Fine Foods E-Mail-Adresse: quality@temafinefoods.com Homepage: https://www.temafinefoods.com/important-safety-warning-chtoura-garden-sesame-paste-tahina-lebanon-12x800g-lot-number-l80-925-tf-exp-10-2027/ Rückrufi…",
    "emails": [
      "quality@temafinefoods.com"
    ],
    "phone": null,
    "website": "https://www.temafinefoods.com/important-safety-warning-chtoura-garden-sesame-paste-tahina-lebanon-12x800g-lot-number-l80-925-tf-exp-10-2027/"
  },
  "images": [
    "https://www.lebensmittelwarnung.de/___lebensmittelwarnung.de/Meldungen/2026/10_Oktober/261002_03_BY_Sesampaste/261002_03_BY_Sesampaste_Bild_1.png?__blob=normal&v=3",
    "https://www.lebensmittelwarnung.de/___lebensmittelwarnung.de/Meldungen/2026/10_Oktober/261002_03_BY_Sesampaste/261002_03_BY_Sesampaste_Bild_2.png?__blob=normal&v=3"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.lebensmittelwarnung.de/___lebensmittelwarnung.de/Meldungen/2026/10_Oktober/261002_03_BY_Sesampaste/261002_03_BY_Sesampaste.html",
  "source": "Source: lebensmittelwarnung.de – Portal der Bundesländer und des Bundesamts für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL)"
}

Use cases

• Retail, wholesale and food-service quality assurance: check your assortment against new recalls every hour.
• Insurers, law firms and consumer apps: structured recall history with batches and reasons.
• Journalists and researchers: trend analysis by reason, state or manufacturer.
• AI assistants: answer "is this product recalled?" with the official source.

Monitoring mode

{ "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true, "reasons": ["pathogen", "allergen"], "monitorKey": "my-shop" }

The Actor remembers which warnings it has already delivered to you. It stores this list in a key-value store in your own Apify account (food-recalls-monitor). Each scheduled run then returns only new warnings. Use different monitorKey values for independent monitors.

Reliability and fair use

• Each run makes one request to the official RSS feed, which contains all current warnings (around 250). This fully respects the portal's crawl-delay.
• Every warning is validated: ID, title, product, ISO date, reasons, affected states and official URL. If the feed is empty or its format changes, the run fails with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT.
• You pay only for valid rows in your dataset. The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run.

Legal

• Source: lebensmittelwarnung.de, the portal of the German states and the BVL. Public warnings under § 40 LFGB. Every row carries the attribution.
• Product images are © the respective companies, as stated on the portal. The Actor returns only their URLs.
• Contact data is the companies' recall contact. E-mail addresses that look personal are removed.
• This Actor is not affiliated with the BVL or the state authorities. The official warning text is binding.

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