diff --git a/src/recipe-handler/requirements.txt b/src/recipe-handler/requirements.txt
index 1d29505..30e03d9 100644
--- a/src/recipe-handler/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recipe-handler/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ joblib==0.13.2
 jsonpickle==1.1
 more-itertools==6.0.0
 nltk==3.4.5
-numpy==1.16.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 pyparsing==2.3.1
 rdflib==4.2.2
 singledispatch==3.4.0.3