UK FSA Approved Food Establishment Approval Number Portfolio Status Event Monitor

Watch a book of FSA Approval Numbers (AppNo) and emit typed directory status/activity events when the official Food Standards Agency Approved Food Establishments — Daily update CSV shows an establishment appearing, leaving the published approved list, or materially changing activities / competent authority.

Not FHRS / Scores-on-the-Doors hygiene ratings. Not an FSA food-alert / RASFF ticker. Not unpaid supplier-audit SaaS scrape. Not the US FSIS Est# twin (different regulator, geography, ID scheme).

Coverage honesty (AppNo exact match + daily CSV cadence)

• Source: Official FSA OGL v3 daily CSV
  https://fsaopendata.blob.core.windows.net/fsaopendatacatalog/source_data.ApprovedEstPublication_Daily.csv
  (live-verified HTTP 200; fields include AppNo, TradingName, address, All_Activities, CompetentAuthority, GeographicLocalAuthority, InsertedDate).
• Keys: AppNo exact match after normalize (trim / uppercase / collapse internal whitespace). TradingName+postcode is not used as a primary match.
• Cadence: Daily FSA extract (not intra-day).
• Geography: Verified blob coverage includes England / Wales / Northern Ireland / Crown Dependencies. Scotland (Food Standards Scotland) publishes separately and is not in this daily file — do not claim full-UK single-file coverage.
• Fields: Activities and authority mapped from FSA CSV columns (no invented statuses).

Events

Event	When
FSA_APP_APPEARED	Watched AppNo missing → present on approved list
FSA_APP_DROPPED	Watched AppNo present → missing from approved list
FSA_ACTIVITIES_CHANGED	All_Activities fingerprint changed while still present
FSA_AUTHORITY_CHANGED	Competent and/or geographic local authority changed while still present
RUN_STATUS	Non-billable health row every successful run

First observation of an AppNo stores a baseline only (no product charge).

Modes

• sourceMode=fixture (default): Store health / CI. With emitFixtureDemoEvents=false (default) emits only RUN_STATUS / FIXTURE_HEALTH → 0 product charges.
• sourceMode=live: Official FSA daily CSV (no API key). One CSV pull, then in-memory filter to the watchlist — does not bill national rows.

Pricing (Model A)

• fsa-appno-status-event-delivered @ $0.02 / unique delivered event
• apify-actor-start @ $0.00005
• Quiet books ≈ $0 product charge

Input

See .actor/input_schema.json. Primary field: approvalNumbers (alias appNos). Optional signalGroups: directory, activities, authority.

Legal

GREEN — FSA open data under Open Government Licence v3. Cite FSA + retrieval date. Default product fields = AppNo + trading name + activities/authority + address (business facility data; no consumer PII).

A1b wedge

Approval-number watchlist × scheduled official daily FSA CSV snapshot diff → typed approval-directory status/activity events only for the book. Existing Store shelf is alert/RASFF/FHRS (wrong jobs) or empty AppNo portfolio PPE. See opportunity/reports/phase3-a1b-next3-v12.md (#1 PASS → build #32). Competitors cited from v12 only: taroyamada/food-safety-alert-portfolio-report (0 MAU, alerts); EU RASFF scrapers promptica / scrapers_lat (1); FHRS hygiene scrapers (exhausted adjacent).

Private

isPublic must remain false for this launch.