# GET /uk/food-hygiene: $0.005 per call

UK food hygiene ratings (Food Standards Agency) for restaurants, takeaways, shops and other food businesses: rating (0-5 or Pass/Improvement Required in Scotland), inspection date, hygiene/structural/management scores, address and location. Search by ?name=...&postcode=... or address. Official FSA data.

- **Price:** $0.005 in USDC, the same on Base, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum. Failed calls are never charged.
- **Free trial:** yes, 20 free calls a day from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client ([set-up](/mcp/setup)).
- **Answers cached for:** 1 day(s)
- **Data sources:** Food Standards Agency (free, OGL)
- **Lane:** UK & EU open data ([OpenAPI](/openapi/uk-data.json))
- **Live health:** [status page](/status)

## Free sample

See an answer for the demo input first, free (no payment, 10 a minute): [https://aayatai.com/sample/uk-food-hygiene](/sample/uk-food-hygiene). It is a stored real answer when we have one, otherwise an example marked `"kind": "illustrative"`.

```bash
curl "https://aayatai.com/sample/uk-food-hygiene"
```

## 1. See the price (free)

Call it without paying: you get `402 Payment Required` and a `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` header with the exact price and where to pay.

```bash
curl -i "https://aayatai.com/uk/food-hygiene?name=Pret&postcode=SW1A"
```

## 2. Pay and call (TypeScript)

```bash
npm install @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
```

```ts
import { wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig } from "@x402/fetch";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// A wallet used only by your agent, holding a little USDC on Base.
const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`);
const pay = wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig(fetch, {
  schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(account) }],
});

const res = await pay("https://aayatai.com/uk/food-hygiene?name=Pret&postcode=SW1A");
console.log(await res.json());
```

## 3. Or as an MCP tool

```ts
// MCP server: https://aayatai.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP). With the x402 MCP client (see /start):
const result = await client.callTool("uk-food-hygiene", {"name":"Pret","postcode":"SW1A"});
```

## Inputs

- `name` (string): Business name (or part of it).
- `postcode` (string): Postcode or partial postcode, e.g. SW1A or SW1A 1AA.
- `address` (string): Town or street, if no postcode.
- `limit` (integer; default `10`): Most results to return.

Bad inputs are rejected with HTTP 400 before any payment is asked for.

## Example answer

```json
{
  "total": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 123456,
      "name": "Pret A Manger",
      "type": "Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen",
      "address": "1 Example St, London",
      "postcode": "SW1A 2AA",
      "rating": "5",
      "ratingDate": "2025-11-04",
      "scores": {
        "hygiene": 0,
        "structural": 5,
        "management": 0
      },
      "authority": "Westminster",
      "scheme": "FHRS",
      "newRatingPending": false,
      "latitude": 51.5,
      "longitude": -0.13,
      "url": "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/123456"
    }
  ],
  "licence": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."
}
```

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