FSIS Recalls and Public Health Alerts (email)

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 2 · email bulletin · Department of Agriculture (FSIS)

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What this source is

The Food Safety and Inspection Service inspects meat, poultry, and egg products. Its bulletins carry recall notices and public-health alerts naming specific products and establishments, a document class distinct from departmental press releases.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

fsis-email

Agency / parent organization

Department of Agriculture (FSIS)

Branch

executive

Type

email bulletin

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (home)

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls (opens in a new tab)

URL (signup)

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USFSIS/subscriber/new (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-29

Registry notes

Subscribed and confirmed 2026-07-29 (sender [address withheld]). Registered separately from agriculture-email because recalls are a distinct, time-critical document class rather than press material. Gate-3 coverage evaluation (2026-07-30, from the 2026-07-29 bulletins): 1 bulletin carried 1 recall/alert, full text, DKIM-verified, with its canonical fsis.usda.gov URL. The subscription is FSIS's own recall-and-alert distribution list — the channel the agency operates for exactly this document class; the public recalls page remains the visible cross-check.

How we ingest it

Channel

email bulletin

Method

Subscription bulletins to the project mailbox, ingested by the email adapter (src/fapd/email_sources.py; raw RFC-5322 capture, DKIM verify-and-archive).

Adapter

govdelivery

Poll cadence

the project mailbox is read about every 15 minutes

Requests

none — bulletins are delivered to the project mailbox by the agency's own subscription service

Authenticity

every message's DKIM signature is checked on arrival and the result is disclosed on each item; a failing signature is labeled, never silently dropped

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 11 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-07-31, delivered by email.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day