# FDA import alert red lists (remote · referencesource.org)

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

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-21

## Components

- remote · `referencesource.org`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts/mcp-import-alerts.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts/mcp-import-alerts)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-21.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1025 tokens (~170/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the FDA import alert red lists MCP server?

FDA import alert red lists is a hosted endpoint at https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts 'https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts": {
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts]
url = "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts --url 'https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts:
    url: "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts -t streamable-http -u 'https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-21 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `resolve_firm` (~158 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Optional country filter, e.g. "CHINA", "Vietnam". FDA prints countries in capitals; matching is case-insensitive.
- `firm_name` (string, required): Firm name or part of one. Case-insensitive substring match.

Output parameters:

- `coverage` (string)
- `firm_name` (string)
- `listings` (array)
- `listings_matched` (integer)
- `listings_returned` (integer)
- `register` (object)

### `get_listing` (~120 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `record_id` (string, required): The listing's record id, e.g. "argentina-54-16-molecular-dynamics-sas".

Output parameters:

- `listing` (object)
- `register` (object)

### `list_import_alerts` (~80 tokens)

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.

Output parameters:

- `alerts` (array)
- `alerts_total` (integer)
- `coverage` (string)
- `register` (object)

### `list_alert_firms` (~134 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `country` (string): Optional country filter.
- `import_alert_number` (string, required): The alert number as FDA prints it, e.g. "16-120" or "66-57".
- `limit` (integer): How many to return, 1–20. Default 20.

Output parameters:

- `coverage` (string)
- `firms` (array)
- `firms_matched` (integer)
- `firms_returned` (integer)
- `import_alert_number` (string)
- `register` (object)

### `list_recent_listings` (~152 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `import_alert_number` (string): Optional: only this alert.
- `limit` (integer): How many to return, 1–20. Default 20.
- `since` (string, required): ISO date, e.g. "2025-01-01". FDA prints MM/DD/YYYY; this filter compares an ISO form computed here from that string.

Output parameters:

- `coverage` (string)
- `listings` (array)
- `listings_matched` (integer)
- `listings_returned` (integer)
- `register` (object)
- `since` (string)

### `verify_quote` (~166 tokens)

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).

Input parameters:

- `claimed_value` (string, required): The value to check, exactly as claimed, e.g. "Terminated" or "2026-10-29".
- `field` (string): Which field the claim is about, if you know it. Without it, every stored field of the record is checked.
- `record_id` (string, required): The listing's record id, from resolve_firm or list_alert_firms.

Output parameters:

- `attestation` (string)
- `claimed_value` (string)
- `in_source_quote` (boolean)
- `match` (object)
- `quote_source` (string)
- `record` (object)
- `stored_values` (object)
- `verdict` (string): matches_record: the claim equals a stored value (match.match_type says how exactly). matches_quote: it appears in the verbatim source quote but is not a stored value. differs: the record was found an…

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts/mcp-import-alerts#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-21: 71

## Common questions

### What is the FDA import alert red lists MCP server?

FDA import alert red lists is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.joelp22-maker/referencesource-import-alerts. Is a foreign supplier on an FDA import alert red list, detained at the US border? 14,000+ listings. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts).

### Is the FDA import alert red lists MCP server safe to use?

FDA import alert red lists scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the FDA import alert red lists MCP server expose?

FDA import alert red lists exposes 6 tools: resolve_firm, get_listing, list_import_alerts, list_alert_firms, list_recent_listings, verify_quote. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 810 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the FDA import alert red lists MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to FDA import alert red lists without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the FDA import alert red lists MCP server still maintained?

FDA import alert red lists is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 21 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://referencesource.org/mcp/import-alerts
- Repository: https://github.com/joelp22-maker/referencesource-mcp
- Website: https://referencesource.org/fda-import-alert-red-list
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts/mcp-import-alerts.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts/mcp-import-alerts.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/joelp22-maker-referencesource-import-alerts/mcp-import-alerts