# Check a food product against labels and recalls. Compare nutrition, grades and recall history 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. - For: Food brands, category managers and buyers - Providers: 5 (USDA, Open Food Facts, openFDA, RappelConso and Tavily), 5 tools - Example (One USDA search, one Open Food Facts search, one FDA recall read, one French recall read and one press search): at most $0.008, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-11-04 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **USDA** (1 tool, free): US branded food labels with ingredients and nutrients. - **Open Food Facts** (1 tool, free): Nutri-Score, processing grades and brands by category and country. - **openFDA** (1 tool, free): FDA food recall notices with reasons. - **RappelConso** (1 tool, free): French product recalls with reasons and risks. - **Tavily** (1 tool, at most $0.008): Recent press on the category and its safety issues. ## Give this to your agent ```text 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. ``` ## You provide - The product or category - The markets you sell in - Your own label, if you have one ## Before this job - The tools must be available in your connected Agentik catalog. Ask for the missing provider configuration if a tool is unavailable. ## What you get: a category brief with label benchmarks and recall history - Comparable labels and their nutrients - Grades and leading brands by country - Recalls and their causes - Where your product stands, and the risks to check ## How to benchmark a food product and check its recalls in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: One USDA search, one Open Food Facts search, one FDA recall read, one French recall read and one press search. ### 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 search](/tools/usda/fooddata-search.md) `usda/fooddata-search` (USDA): free ### 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 facets](/tools/open-food-facts/search.md) `open-food-facts/search` (Open Food Facts): free ### 3. Read the recalls Group the recalls by cause, such as allergens, foreign bodies or contamination. - [openFDA recall enforcement reports](/tools/openfda/recall-enforcement.md) `openfda/recall-enforcement` (openFDA): free - [RappelConso product recall search](/tools/rappelconso/recall-search.md) `rappelconso/recall-search` (RappelConso): free ### 4. Read the press Look for safety stories and category shifts the recall records do not show. - [Tavily agent search](/tools/tavily/search.md) `tavily/search` (Tavily): at most $0.008 Example total: at most $0.008. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Check a food product against its category. - Keep the sample small and cite the source for each conclusion. ## Why through Agentik - Collect the official sources through one Agentik connection. - Inspect the price of each bounded call before running it. - Keep each figure beside its source and date. ## 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. ## Food label and recall check: 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. ## Keep going - [Product review mining](/product-review-mining.md): Reviews of your product category from Google Shopping, TikTok Shop and Trustpilot, plus Reddit threads, sorted into what buyers love, hate and wish for. - [Amazon product research](/amazon-product-research.md): Amazon search demand, the listings that win and their sellers, seasonality, who advertises, and what buyers complain about. - [Competitor price check](/competitor-price-check.md): Every seller of your products on Google Shopping and Amazon with today’s price, competitors’ shipping and promotions read on their own pages, and the coupon codes in circulation. - [E-commerce tools for your agent](/tools/ecommerce.md) - [Research tools for your agent](/tools/research.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/food-label-check) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)