Text alerts contain official warnings from Food Standards Australia on products that have been recalled due to food safety concerns.
Receive a text every time a food recall is issued in your state. Around 90 times per year.
Sign up once for a year's worth of alerts.
Priced at $24, equivalent to $2 per month.
Recalls are published on the Food Standards Australia website. We filter the recall information to your state, extract the most important information (product name, expiry date, and reason for recall) and send it on to you as a text message. All this within a minute of the recall being issued.
Right now, only in Australia.
Legally, food companies have to provide a notification when their product has been recalled. But in practice, these notices can be as simple as an A4 piece of paper stuck behind the counter at the supermarket , so they are very easy to miss. Once the recall is published, it's on the consumer to inform themselves about it.
Any time there is a recall of a food or beverage product in your state. In the first half of 2025 there were 38 food recalls, and you get a notification each time there's a recall in your state (or nationally). For QLD in 2025, you would have received around 1 message every 1 or 2 weeks.
We are Scientific Microservices, an independent data science studio developing lightweight scientific services and microservices for the public good.
We're PhD qualified scientists, we've worked with State-level food safety authorities, and we care about getting things right. More importantly, the information you're getting doesn't come just from us; it comes from Food Standards Australia New Zealand, via our microservices. You can always cross-check the notice you get from us against the FSANZ official recall website.
Please contact us and we'll handle it for you.
Your phone number, so we can send you reminder messages; and your state of residence, so we can send only the recalls that are relevant for you.
It's $24 for a year's worth of alerts (equivalent to $2 per month).
Yes. Enter the recipient's phone number at checkout. If you want to receive the messages yourself and forward them, enter your own number.
We use your phone number to send you alerts with food safety recall information. Your number is stored on a secure database and only used for this purpose. We don't send anything else and we don't share your information.
Food safety recalls are issued for: presence of mould, foreign object contamination (metal, plastic, glass, rubber), microbial and biotoxin contamination (Salmonella, E.Coli, Listeria), undeclared allergens (milk, eggs, gluten, soy, nuts, sesame, sulphites, seafood), chemical contamination, prohibited botanicals and unapproved novel ingredients.