ukfsa.establishments.search
Search UK food businesses by name, address, postcode, or local authority. Returns the official Food Hygiene Rating Scheme score (0-5), business type, last inspection date, and full address. Covers 500K+ premises across England, Wales, Northern Ireland (Scotland has separate FHIS — pass/improvemen...
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What ukfsa.establishments.search does on Apibase
AI agents call ukfsa.establishments.search to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
name | string | — | Business name fragment to search (e.g. 'Tesco', 'Pret', 'Wagamama'). Partial match supported. |
address | string | — | Address or postcode fragment (e.g. 'SW1A 1AA', 'Manchester', 'Oxford Street'). |
latitude | number | — | WGS84 latitude for location-based search (use with longitude + max_distance_miles). |
longitude | number | — | WGS84 longitude for location-based search. |
page_size | integer | — | Results per page (1-50, default 20). |
page_number | integer | — | Page number for pagination (1-200, default 1). |
max_distance_miles | integer | — | Search radius from lat/lon in miles (0-100, default 5). |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why ukfsa.establishments.search is rated Low
Queries publicly available food hygiene data without modification, deletion, or external side effects.
From the tool's definition Search UK food businesses by name, address, postcode. Returns rating, type, inspection date, address.
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The rule that runs ukfsa.establishments.search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ukfsa.establishments.search, this is the rule to start with:
ukfsa.establishments.search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every ukfsa.establishments.search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about ukfsa.establishments.search
Search UK food businesses by name, address, postcode, or local authority. Returns the official Food Hygiene Rating Scheme score (0-5), business type, last inspection date, and full address. Covers 500K+ premises across England, Wales, Northern Ireland (Scotland has separate FHIS — pass/improvement required). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
ukfsa.establishments.search accepts 7 parameters: name, address, latitude, longitude, page_size, page_number, max_distance_miles. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ukfsa.establishments.search: 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 Apibase. Nothing to install.
ukfsa.establishments.search 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 ukfsa.establishments.search 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 ukfsa.establishments.search. 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.
ukfsa.establishments.search is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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