FDA import alert red lists

io.github.joelp22-makerPublished by GitHub account joelp22-makerv1.0.0Updated Nov 2, 2026

Is a foreign supplier on an FDA import alert red list, detained at the US border? 14,000+ listings.

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Overview

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Remote MCP server for FDA import alert red lists, letting an assistant look up whether a foreign supplier is red-listed and verify the details.

What you can do
  • Look up firms on FDA import alert red lists by name or partial name, optionally narrowed by country
  • Read one listing in full: firm name and address, alert number and title, product code, FDA's stated reason and publication date
  • List the import alerts covered, with firm counts, country counts and newest listing date
  • List the firms on a given alert, newest first, optionally filtered by country
  • Find listings published on or after a date, to watch a category over time
  • Check a claim about a listing (alert number, country, date, stated reason) against the stored register
When to use it
Useful when checking whether a supplier, manufacturer or shipper appears on an FDA import alert red list, when researching detention risk for a sourcing decision, or when you need to confirm a specific red-list detail against a sourced record rather than a guess.
Requirements
A remote streamable-HTTP endpoint at referencesource.org; no account, API key or header is declared. The README also describes an optional local npm package (Node 18+) that bridges stdio clients to the same endpoint.
Before you install
Read-only lookups; no writes are described. Results reflect what the FDA source pages state, not ground truth, and a not-found answer means only that the entry is not in this dataset. Requests go to a third-party server, which keeps standard request logs.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open FDA import alert red lists in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.joelp22-maker%2Freferencesource-import-alerts/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fda-import-alert-red-lists": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
    }
  }
}

README

referencesource-mcp

[referencesource.org MCP connector]

MCP server for referencesource.org — small, verified reference datasets where every record carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page, so any value an assistant gives you can be checked, not just believed.

285 datasets, 110,000+ records: regulatory thresholds and deadlines, version compatibility, standards supersessions, certification registers, inspection requirements, and more. Each dataset states its coverage and its last-verified date.

Tools

toolwhat it does
list_datasetsevery dataset with record counts and descriptions
search_recordssearch within a dataset; each hit returns the value plus its source URL and verbatim source quote
get_recordone record by id, full provenance included
verify_quotegive it a dataset slug and a value you already hold (record id and field optional) — it checks that claim against our published records and says whether it matches

verify_quote is the unusual one: assistants invent plausible-but-wrong values roughly 19% of the time in our own measurements, and this is the check. Four verdicts come back:

verdictwhat it means
matches_recordthe claim equals the stored value; the match type is named (exact, case-insensitive, normalised)
matches_quotenot a stored value, but it does appear in the record's source quote
differsthe record holds a different value — both are returned, with the source
not_foundno record in that dataset carries it

Where a record is found, the answer carries the stored value, the record URL, the source URL and the verbatim quote, so the claim can be traced upstream — plus an attestation saying plainly that the verdict is about what our source states, not about what is true in the world. Asking whether the 2026 conforming loan limit for Autauga County, Alabama is $806,500 returns differs, stored value $832,750, quoting the FHFA row it came from.

Scope, stated so nobody overclaims: these tools search referencesource.org's own published records. They do not fetch arbitrary URLs and cannot check a claim against a page we have not harvested. not_found means "not in this dataset", never "false".

Setup

Claude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "referencesource": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "referencesource-mcp"]    }  }}

Cursor / other stdio MCP clients — same idea: command npx, args ["-y", "referencesource-mcp"].

Clients that support remote servers directly don't need this package at all — point them at the streamable-HTTP endpoint: https://referencesource.org/mcp.

Notes

  • Zero dependencies; Node 18+. The package is a thin stdio→HTTPS bridge to the stateless server at referencesource.org/mcp.
  • No accounts, no keys, no tracking beyond standard server request logs (see referencesource.org/privacy).
  • Data is free to read on the site in HTML, Markdown, and JSON; this package just makes it callable mid-conversation.

MIT licensed.

The data behind it

Every record carries source (the page the value was read from) and source_quote (the verbatim line on that page which states it), so any answer this server returns can be checked against its source. verify_quote runs that check against a value you already hold: it tells you whether our record agrees, and hands back the source and quote either way.

Licence

MIT — see LICENSE. The reference data itself is CC BY 4.0; see the data repository for the full position on the quoted excerpts.

Source: README.md at commit e0de5e7

Tools

6

resolve_firm

Find a firm on an FDA import alert red list

Is this supplier red-listed by FDA? Search the import alert red lists by firm name or part of one (e.g. "Tonga Tiur", "Qingdao", "pharmacy"), optionally narrowed to a country. Returns each listing with the import alert number and name, the country, the date FDA published the listing, and the FDA page and verbatim quote it was read from. A firm can appear more than once — one record per alert it is listed on.

Parameterscountryfirm_namerequired

get_listing

Get one red-list entry in full

Everything FDA prints for one red-list entry: the firm name and address, the import alert and its title, the product code and description, FDA's stated reason (the Notes block — the actual finding, e.g. "Decomposition" or a confirmed laboratory result), and the date published, with the FDA page and a verbatim quote. Record IDs come from resolve_firm or list_alert_firms.

Parametersrecord_idrequired

list_import_alerts

List the import alerts this register covers

Which FDA import alerts are in here, and how many firms are on each? Returns the alert number, FDA's own title for it, the number of firms red-listed, how many countries they are in, and the newest listing date. Call this first to see what can be answered, and to get an alert number for list_alert_firms.

Takes no parameters.

list_alert_firms

List the firms red-listed on one import alert

Who is on this import alert? Returns the firms red-listed on one alert number (from list_import_alerts), newest listing first, optionally narrowed to a country — for example every Vietnamese firm on 16-120, or every firm on 66-57. Each with the FDA page and a verbatim quote.

Parameterslimitcountryimport_alert_numberrequired

list_recent_listings

List firms added to a red list since a date

Who has FDA red-listed recently? Returns the listings whose published date is on or after a date you give, newest first, optionally for one alert. Use this to watch a category — new detentions on the seafood alerts, say — rather than to look a firm up. The date FDA prints is when the FIRM was added to the alert.

Parameterslimitsincerequiredimport_alert_number

verify_quote

Check a claimed import-alert fact against the register

Is this right? Check a claim about a red-list entry — the alert number a firm is on, its country, the date it was published, FDA's stated reason — against the register instead of trusting it. Says whether the claim matches a stored value, appears only in the verbatim FDA quote, or differs (and then what FDA's page says instead).

Parametersfieldrecord_idrequiredclaimed_valuerequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.0LatestSep 21, 2026

Score

100% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts

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