Swiss Food Safety MCP server

🇨🇭 Part of the Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio

swiss-food-safety-mcp

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MCP server connecting AI models to Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (BLV) open data — food recalls, animal disease surveillance, food control results, antibiotic usage, children's nutrition surveys and the pesticide register. No authentication required.

Overview

swiss-food-safety-mcp gives AI assistants like Claude direct access to official Swiss food safety and veterinary data from the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (BLV / Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen). It provides 11 tools covering food recalls, animal disease surveillance, food control results, antibiotic usage in veterinary medicine, nutrition surveys for children, and the pesticide register.

All data comes from official Swiss federal sources (opendata.swiss, lindas.admin.ch, news.admin.ch). No API keys or authentication are required.

This server follows the No-Auth-First philosophy and is part of a Swiss public sector MCP portfolio.

Anchor demo query: "Are there any current BLV food warnings relevant to Zurich school canteens — and which notifiable animal diseases are currently reported in the canton?"

Demo

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Features

• 🚨 Public warnings & recalls — Live RSS feed of BLV product recalls and health warnings
• 🐄 Animal disease surveillance — Notifiable animal diseases since 1991 (InfoSM) via the LINDAS SPARQL cube
• 🐦 Avian influenza monitoring — Wild bird surveillance data with geodata
• 🥩 Food control results — Cantonal food inspection results and violation rates
• 💊 Antibiotic usage veterinary — ISABV data on antibiotic use in animal medicine
• 🧒 Children's nutrition survey — menuCH-Kids questionnaire tallies (answer counts, not nutrient intake)
• 🌿 Pesticide register — Swiss approved pesticide products and active ingredients
• 📊 Dataset discovery — Browse all 28 BLV datasets on opendata.swiss via CKAN API
• 🔗 Dual transport — stdio (Claude Desktop) + Streamable HTTP (cloud/Render.com)
• 🗣️ Bilingual — English-first documentation, German secondary

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• uv or uvx (recommended) — install uv

Installation

Using uvx (recommended — no install needed)

uvx swiss-food-safety-mcp

Using uv

uv tool install swiss-food-safety-mcp
swiss-food-safety-mcp

From source

git clone https://github.com/malkreide/swiss-food-safety-mcp
cd swiss-food-safety-mcp
uv sync
uv run swiss-food-safety-mcp

Quickstart

Add to claudedesktopconfig.json:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claudedesktopconfig.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-food-safety": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["swiss-food-safety-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Try it immediately in Claude Desktop:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.