NZ Food Recalls Scraper

NZ Food Recalls Scraper pulls structured data from Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and returns it as a clean dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel. It collects the latest New Zealand food recall notices published by the Ministry for Primary Industries, with the recall title, publication date, issuing source and a link to the full notice. Useful for food-safety monitoring, grocery and retail compliance, allergen alerts and news feeds.

No API key, no login. Click Start and it works with the prefilled input.

What does NZ Food Recalls Scraper do?

It queries Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and returns one row per record, with only the fields that matter. Runs on the Apify platform, so you get an API endpoint, scheduling, monitoring and integrations (Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, webhooks) without maintaining any infrastructure.

Why use it?

• Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) data without the plumbing: no proxy setup, no pagination code, no scraping maintenance.
• Schedule it to monitor changes daily or weekly and trigger alerts on new records.
• Feed it straight into a spreadsheet, database, or an AI agent via the Apify API or MCP server.
• Runs in seconds and returns a typed dataset that is ready for analysis.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Leave the default input to see a sample run, or type your own values (see Input below).
3. Press Start and wait a few seconds.
4. Open the Output tab and download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	"site:mpi.govt.nz food recall"	Keyword or news query used to search MPI food recall notices.
maxResults	integer	25	Maximum number of food recall notices to return.

Example input:

{
  "query": "site:mpi.govt.nz food recall",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output

One item per record. Sample:

{
  "title": "Woolworths brand Multi Grain Cereal recalled as the product may contain foreign matter (blue plastic)",
  "published_date": "2026-09-08",
  "source": "Ministry for Primary Industries | MPI",
  "retrieved_from": "MPI recall notices via public RSS feed",
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi..."
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data fields

Field	Type	Meaning
title	string	Recall
published_date	string	Published
source	string	Source
retrieved_from	string	Retrieved From
url	string	Notice Link

How much does it cost to run?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay per result item pushed to the dataset, and nothing for an empty run. Each run is a few seconds of compute, so typical costs are fractions of a cent per run, and the Apify free tier covers plenty of testing.

Tips and advanced options

• Raise maxResults for a bigger pull; the Actor pages through the source for you.
• Schedule it (e.g. every morning) and combine with a webhook to get only the new records.
• Add the Actor to an AI agent through the Apify MCP server for natural-language queries.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

• Is this legal? It uses publicly available data from Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the source's terms.
• It returned nothing? Try a broader keyword such as "recall" or "allergen", or clear the search query to get every recent notice.
• Something broken? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Data sources change and get fixed quickly.
• Need a custom variant (extra fields, a different source, a scheduled report)? Get in touch through the Issues tab.