# German Food Recalls & Warnings Monitor (lebensmittelwarnung.de) (`dach-open-data/german-food-recalls`) Actor

Official German food and product safety warnings from lebensmittelwarnung.de: product, brand, manufacturer, batch, best-before date, reason (Salmonella, Listeria, foreign bodies, allergens …), affected states, recall contact. Monitoring mode returns only new warnings.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dach-open-data/german-food-recalls.md
- **Developed by:** [DACH Open Data](https://apify.com/dach-open-data) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, News, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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.

***

### 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):

```json
{
  "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

```json
{ "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.

### More official data from DACH Open Data

All Actors use official open data, check every record and charge only for valid results.

**Public affairs and legislation:** [Lobby Register Germany + EU – Lobbyists, Spend & Interests](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/lobby-register-de-eu) · [German Bundestag Legislation Tracker (DIP)](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/bundestag-dip-legislation) · [EU Have Your Say – Commission Consultations & Feedback](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/eu-have-your-say-consultations) · [Swiss Parliament Affairs Tracker (Curia Vista)](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/swiss-parliament-affairs)

**Funding and public money:** [EU Funding Calls – Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE & more](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/funding-calls-at-eu) · [EU Grants & Contracts Recipients (FTS)](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts) · [EU Funding Recipients – Structural Funds (Kohesio)](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/eu-funding-recipients-kohesio)

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# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Words in product name, brand, manufacturer or batch, e.g. "Salami", "Sesam", "Rewe". Empty = all.

## `reasons` (type: `array`):

German or English: Krankheitserreger / pathogen (Salmonella, Listeria …), Fremdkörper / foreign body, Allergene / allergen, Gesundheitsschädliche Substanz / harmful substance, Rückstände und Kontaminanten / residues, Irreführung / misleading.

## `states` (type: `array`):

Only warnings affecting (or issued by) these states, e.g. Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Berlin.

## `publishedSince` (type: `string`):

Only warnings published on or after this date (format YYYY-MM-DD).

## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`):

Monitoring mode: remembers delivered warnings in your own Apify storage and returns only new ones. Schedule the Actor (e.g. hourly) for an alert feed.

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Use different names to run several independent monitors (e.g. one per customer or filter).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on warnings returned and charged in this run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "reasons": [],
  "states": [],
  "publishedSince": "",
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "monitorKey": "default",
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All records returned by this run (default dataset, table view "overview").

## `summary` (type: `string`):

JSON with number of results, dropped implausible records and stop reason.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxResults": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dach-open-data/german-food-recalls").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxResults": 50 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dach-open-data/german-food-recalls").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxResults": 50
}' |
apify call dach-open-data/german-food-recalls --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dach-open-data/german-food-recalls"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/l3AiBbQgwibSDULW7/builds/1V1muHO1rHgW5Rml2/openapi.json