Check a food product against labels and recalls

A food product compared with US branded labels and Open Food Facts grades, then checked against FDA and French recalls.

Steps

At most, per call

Before launching or listing a food product, see what is already on the shelf and what has gone wrong. USDA holds branded nutrition labels, Open Food Facts adds grades by country, openFDA and RappelConso list recalls, and Tavily adds press.

Before this job

The tools must be available in your connected Agentik catalog. Ask for the missing provider configuration if a tool is unavailable.

Step 1: Read comparable US labels
Use branded foods and keep the serving size, because nutrients are not always per 100 g.
- USDA FoodData Central food searchUSDAFree
Step 2: Compare grades by country
Use the category and country tags, and read the facets for leading brands and grades.
- Open Food Facts product search and facetsOpen Food FactsFree
Step 3: Read the recalls
Group the recalls by cause, such as allergens, foreign bodies or contamination.
- openFDA recall enforcement reportsopenFDAFree
- RappelConso product recall searchRappelConsoFree
Step 4: Read the press
Look for safety stories and category shifts the recall records do not show.
- Tavily agent searchTavily$0.008

Cost of the example

At most $0.008one run

One USDA search, one Open Food Facts search, one FDA recall read, one French recall read and one press search.

Give this to your agent

Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: food label and recall check.

Check a food product against its category. Find comparable branded labels in the US and compare their nutrients and ingredients. Read grades and leading brands for the category in the countries I sell in. List recent recalls in the US and France and group them by cause. Search recent press on the category. Show where my product stands against the sample, give the sample size and keep this as market research rather than regulatory advice.

Use these Agentik tools for the written steps: usda/fooddata-search, open-food-facts/search, openfda/recall-enforcement, rappelconso/recall-search, tavily/search. Inspect their current schemas and availability first. Ask for missing inputs and use identifiers returned by actual earlier results. The page's example identifiers illustrate input shapes. Quote more pages before expanding. Preserve source links, dates and uncertainty.

Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged.

5 providers, one connection

What you get

A category brief with label benchmarks and recall history.

You provide

The product or category
The markets you sell in
Your own label, if you have one

Your agent returns

Comparable labels and their nutrients
Grades and leading brands by country
Recalls and their causes
Where your product stands, and the risks to check

Your evidence briefExample layout

Scope and source dates
Official records and figures
Interpretation and uncertainty
Questions and next steps

Placeholders. Your rows come from your run.

Each provider does one part

No single provider covers this job. Your agent calls each one for its part, from one connection.

Good to know

Open Food Facts is filled in by contributors, so check important fields on the pack.
This is market research, not regulatory or labelling advice.

When to use something else

For formulation review, compliance sign-off and nutrition labelling, use a food regulatory specialist. This playbook prepares the market evidence.

Questions

What does the example cost?

At most $0.008 for the illustrated calls. The official records are free through Agentik, and the paid calls are the press, maps or email steps.

Does the result cover every source?

No. Public records have publication lags and search results can be incomplete. Keep the collection date, sample size and missing evidence visible.

Does this send messages or change an account?

No. These steps read public records and prepare a brief. Sending a message or changing an account requires a separate instruction.

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