💊 FDA Recall Monitor — Drugs, Devices & Food Safety (MCP)

The full openFDA enforcement feed: every drug, medical-device and food recall reported by the FDA — with Class I/II/III danger classification, reason, product, quantity, recalling firm and distribution pattern. Monitor mode = your daily "what got recalled yesterday" digest. No API key. MCP-ready.

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✨ The 6 things ChatGPT can't do (built in)

Ingredient	Here
🔒 Hard-to-get data	Official openFDA API chained across 3 endpoints (drug + device + food enforcement) with report-date windows, paging and openFDA quirks handled (404 = no match, YYYYMMDD dates). 100% the official record.
🛠️ Hardest problems, solved	Classification filter (Class I = serious/death risk), firm match, state match, ongoing-only, keyword scan over product+reason+brands.
⚙️ Automation	monitor + daily schedule = "every recall reported in the last 24h, deduped forever" — QA teams, pharmacies, hospital procurement, food distributors and law firms pay real money for exactly this.
🧠 AI-agent cheap	$0.001 start + $0.001 per recall — firm, reason, classification, everything free.

⏳ FDA lag intel (ChatGPT doesn't know this): enforcement reports are published in weekly batches with a ~2-week delay. Default daysBack=21 catches the full pipeline — a monitor scheduled daily quietly catches every batch the hour it lands.

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🚀 3 recipes that pay

#1 — Daily safety digest (QA / compliance)

{ "mode": "monitor", "daysBack": 7, "classifications": ["Class I", "Class II"] }

→ Schedule 07:00 → every serious recall reported yesterday across drugs, devices & food → Slack digest.

#2 — Competitor/supplier watch

{ "mode": "monitor", "scopes": ["drug"], "firmIncludes": "Sterling", "daysBack": 3 }

→ The moment a tracked firm appears in an FDA recall record, you know.

#3 — Category radar (food distributors)

{ "mode": "search", "scopes": ["food"], "keywords": "allergen", "daysBack": 60, "ongoingOnly": true, "maxResults": 200 }

→ All ongoing undeclared-allergen food recalls from the last 2 months.

MCP: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/fda-recall-monitor — your agent answers "any Class I medical-device recalls this week?" with the official FDA record.

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📦 What each row contains

recallNumber · domain (drug/device/food) · eventId · status (Ongoing/Completed/Terminated) · classification (Class I/II/III) · recallingFirm + city/state/country/postalCode · productDescription · reasonForRecall · productQuantity · productType · codeInfo (lot/serial ranges) · distributionPattern · voluntaryMandated · initialFirmNotification method · recallInitiationDateISO / reportDateISO / centerClassificationDateISO · lagDays (days between the recall event and its FDA batch publication — the two clocks, quantified) · brandNames[]/genericNames[] (openFDA harmonized, drugs) · isNew/firstSeenAt (monitor).

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🆚 Competition

Actor	Users	Monitor	3 domains	Dedupe
benthepythondev/fda-recall-intelligence	11	partial	❌	❌
scrapers_lat/openfda-food-recalls	5	❌	food only	❌
us	—	✅ schedule-ready	✅ drug+device+food	✅ KV forever

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🧪 Input reference

Key	Default	What it does
mode	search	monitor = only recalls never returned before (KV fdarecall-seen, keyed domain+number)
scopes	all	drug / device / food
daysBack	21	report_date window (FDA lags ~2 weeks — don't go small)
keywords, firmIncludes, stateIncludes	—	client-side refinement
classifications	all	Class I / Class II / Class III
ongoingOnly	false	skip Completed/Terminated
maxResults/maxPages	60 / 10	caps (100/page/domain)

Fair use — openFDA is the FDA's official public API (CC0 data). Anonymous rate limits are respected with polite pacing; heavy schedulers should self-throttle.

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💰 Pricing

• $0.001 actor start · $0.001 per recall — classification, firm, reason, lot codes FREE

Rows	Cost (us)
60 recalls (monthly scan)	~$0.06
Daily all-FDA digest (30 days)	~$1–3/month

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