Weekly pipeline
How it works
A weekly digest of material changes in the USDA FSIS MPI establishment directory — immutable snapshots, before/after evidence, disclosed limits.
Live backend stats · stats.json
Who it's for
Vendor research and sales-ops teams who sell into USDA FSIS-inspected meat and poultry plants — packaging, processing equipment, sanitation, refrigeration, labeling, and food-safety software.
You get
A weekly CSV + email of material directory changes with before/after evidence and optional vendor-fit tags (heuristics, not purchase intent).
You don't get
A scraped lead list, a CRM, or a claim that a plant is buying. See accuracy limitations.
What you get each week
After FSIS publishes an updated establishment directory, you receive adds, removals, and meaningful field updates — each with archived before/after values and a content hash for the official file used.
Five steps. Every publish.
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Fetch
Download the full establishment list from the official FSIS MPI API. Failed or partial downloads are rejected — never treated as empty.
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Archive
Store an immutable snapshot with a SHA256 content hash. Each file is dated and never overwritten.
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Normalize
Canonicalize establishment identities, activities, and addresses so diffs are comparable week over week.
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Diff
Generate typed change events with materiality scoring and optional vendor-fit tags.
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Deliver
Email + CSV report to subscribers. Accuracy limitations always disclosed.
What it is
- SourceUSDA FSIS MPI
- CadenceWeekly
- CoverageFederal MPI
- EvidenceSHA256 + diff
What it isn't
- Purchase intentNo
- State-only plantsNo
- Real-timeNo
- Credit / financialNo
Live snapshot provenance
From our most recent successful collect — not simulated data
- Fetched (UTC)2026-08-21T18:36:28.042Z
- Establishments7,235
- States & territories56
- Change events vs prior0
- Very Small / Small / Large2,978 / 2,915 / 518
- API fields mapped20 (0 unmapped)
- Duplicate establishment IDs0
- Pipeline tests44 passing
- Content SHA256 c4b0bc29b554d23cb60fc04f05a5f0966b59ada105607bb66b86618ee432990e
Why zero changes? One baseline snapshot on file. Weekly diffs start after the next official FSIS publish. · Live stats JSON
Change types we detect
- AddedNew establishment in directory
- RemovedNo longer listed (may be admin)
- ReinstatedReturned after removal
- Field updatesName, address, size, activities, species
Removals need review. A directory removal does not always mean a plant closed — it can reflect grant changes, consolidation, or FSIS corrections.
Safety guards
- Failed fetchFail-closed — no alert
- Partial payloadRejected
- Abnormal mass removalBlocked
- Schema driftFingerprint alarm