UK Food Alerts Scraper

UK Food Alerts Scraper pulls structured data from UK Food Standards Agency and returns it as a clean dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel. It queries the UK Food Standards Agency food alerts open-data service and returns one row per recall or allergy alert, with the alert title, reference, risk statement, affected product, reporting business, status and dates. Useful for UK food-safety monitoring, retailer compliance and recall feeds.

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

What does UK Food Alerts Scraper do?

It queries UK Food Standards Agency 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?

• UK Food Standards Agency 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
alertType	string	"PRIN"	FSA alert type: PRIN = product recall information notice, AA = allergy alert, FAFA = food alert for action. One of: 'PRIN', 'AA', 'FAFA'.
maxResults	integer	20	Maximum number of FSA food alert records to return.

Example input:

{
  "alertType": "PRIN",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output

One item per record. Sample:

{
  "title": "James Hall recalls BBQ Pulled Pork because it may contain Salmonella",
  "reference": "FSA-PRIN-01-2018",
  "status": "Published",
  "business": "James Hall",
  "risk_statement": "The products listed above might be contaminated with salmonella.",
  "product": "SPAR BBQ Pulled Pork 2 for 3.50"
}

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

Data fields

Field	Type	Meaning
title	string	Title
reference	string	Alert Reference
status	string	Status
business	string	Business
risk_statement	string	Risk Statement
product	string	Product
created	string	Created
modified	string	Modified
record_id	string	Record ID
alert_url	string	Alert Page

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 UK Food Standards Agency. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the source's terms.
• It returned nothing? Pick a different alert type: PRIN for product recalls, AA for allergy alerts, FAFA for food alerts for action.
• 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.