UK Food Standards Agency food hygiene ratings (FHRS). Search by business name and/or postcode; returns rating (0-5 or Scotland Pass/Improvement Required), rating date, component scores (hygiene/structural/management, lower=better), business type, local authority, address, geocode. Free, Open Gove...
AI agents call food.hygiene-uk to retrieve information from Mcp without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a data retrieval operation against a public UK Food Standards Agency dataset. It queries existing records and returns structured information without side effects. The only action described is 'search,' which is a classic Read operation. No write, delete, execute, or financial operations are possible.
From the tool's definition Tool searches and returns food hygiene ratings data by business name/postcode; returns read-only information (rating numbers, dates, scores, address, geocode). No description of any modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
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UK Food Standards Agency food hygiene ratings (FHRS). Search by business name and/or postcode; returns rating (0-5 or Scotland Pass/Improvement Required), rating date, component scores (hygiene/structural/management, lower=better), business type, local authority, address, geocode. Free, Open Government Licence. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for food.hygiene-uk: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp. Nothing to install.
food.hygiene-uk is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the food.hygiene-uk rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for food.hygiene-uk. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
food.hygiene-uk is provided by the MCP server (@2sio/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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