# USDA FSIS Meat, Poultry & Egg Plant Directory Search

> USDA FSIS Meat, Poultry & Egg Plant Directory Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.govparse.io, paid per call via x402, $1.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search the USDA FSIS Meat, Poultry & Egg Product Inspection Directory for federally-inspected establishments by company, state, city, activity, species, size, or grant date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.govparse.io/v1/fsis/establishments/search
- Price: $1.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/usda-fsis-meat-poultry-egg-plant-directory-search-81a697ec
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ymEoYhiQcALiu0_eRkQE3

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability usda-fsis-meat-poultry-egg-plant-directory-search-81a697ec
```

Example prompt: Show me all large federally-inspected poultry slaughter establishments in Arkansas and Georgia — I want their names, addresses, and FSIS grant dates, sorted by newest grants first.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover, enumerate, or prospect federally-inspected meat, poultry, or egg processing facilities across the US — especially for market mapping, sales prospecting, regulatory research, supply chain sourcing, or tracking newly-granted plants. Prefer this over general business directories when FSIS federal inspection status is the key filter, or when you need FSIS establishment numbers, approved activities, and species data that general databases don't carry.

## Known failure modes

- No matching establishments found for given filters — returns empty result set
- Invalid state code or unrecognized size/species/activity value — may return empty results or validation error
- establishment_number format mismatch (wrong prefix letter) — returns no results
- Date format errors for 'since' parameter — expects strict YYYY-MM-DD
- Rate limit or payment failure (x402) — returns 402 Payment Required
- Offset beyond available results — returns empty page

## How this service works

Which meat, poultry, or egg plants operate in a market? Search the USDA FSIS Meat, Poultry & Egg Product Inspection Directory (every federally-inspected establishment) by company, state, city, activity (slaughter/processing), species, size, or inspection-grant date (since, for new plants). Returns the establishment (entity-resolved where possible), address, activities, and size — a food-safety seller's entire target universe, not just OSHA-hit plants. FSIS public-domain records.

## Output

Returns a paginated list of FSIS-inspected establishment records, each including establishment name, FSIS establishment number, physical address, approved activities (e.g. slaughter, processing, egg products), species covered, facility size classification, inspection grant date, and optionally a resolved entity UUID for cross-referencing with business intelligence data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [],
   "properties": {
    "city": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "Springdale"
     ],
     "description": "City fragment."
    },
    "size": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "Large"
     ],
     "description": "Very Small | Small | Large (CSV)."
    },
    "sort": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "grant_date:desc"
     ],
     "description": "grant_date | establishment_name :asc|:desc. Default grant_date:desc."
    },
    "limit": {
     "type": "integer",
     "examples": [
      25
     ],
     "description": "Max rows (default 25, cap 100)."
    },
    "since": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "2026-01-01"
     ],
     "description": "Inspection grant date on/after this date (YYYY-MM-DD) — surfaces newly-granted plants."
    },
    "state": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "IA"
     ],
     "description": "State code(s), CSV."
    },
    "offset": {
     "type": "integer",
     "examples": [
      0
     ],
     "description": "Rows to skip."
    },
    "company": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "Tyson"
     ],
     "description": "Establishment/company name — suffix/punctuation-insensitive."
    },
    "species": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "poultry"
     ],
     "description": "meat | poultry | egg (CSV)."
    },
    "activity": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "Slaughter"
     ],
     "description": "Activity fragment (Slaughter, Processing, Egg Product, ...)."
    },
    "entity_id": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "b7f3e2d1-4a5c-4e6f-8a9b-0c1d2e3f4a5b"
     ],
     "description": "Resolved employer entity UUID (pivots to business360)."
    },
    "slaughter": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "true"
     ],
     "description": "true = slaughter establishments only."
    },
    "processing": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "true"
     ],
     "description": "true = processing establishments only."
    },
    "establishment_number": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "M12345"
     ],
     "description": "FSIS establishment number(s), CSV (M=meat, P=poultry, G=egg, I=import)."
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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