Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 results

FDA Medical Device Recall Scraper

Fetch FDA medical device recall records via OpenFDA. Filter by device name and date. Returns recall number, reason, risk class, company and recall status.

Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 results

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azureblue

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2 days ago

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Features

Searches FDA's full device recall database (100,000+ records)
Filter by product description keyword and initiation date
Handles 429 rate limiting automatically (10s backoff)
OpenFDA error handling (returns clean "no results" instead of crashing)
Pagination via skip parameter — up to 10,000 records per run
No API key required

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`deviceName`	string	—	Device keyword, e.g. `pacemaker` or `insulin pump`
`dateFrom`	string	—	Filter from date, format `YYYY-MM-DD`
`country`	string	`US`	Country code (OpenFDA covers US)
`maxResults`	integer	50	Max records (1–10,000)

Leave deviceName empty to retrieve the most recent recalls across all devices.

Output

{
  "recallNumber": "Z-0001-2024",
  "deviceName": "IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR",
  "company": "Medtronic Inc.",
  "city": "Minneapolis",
  "state": "MN",
  "country": "US",
  "recallDate": "20240115",
  "postedDate": "20240122",
  "recallStatus": "Ongoing",
  "reason": "The device may deliver inappropriate shocks due to a software defect in the detection algorithm.",
  "rootCause": "Software defect",
  "riskClass": "Cardiovascular",
  "productCode": "LWS",
  "url": "https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRes/res.cfm?id=Z-0001-2024"
}

Use Cases

1. Hospital Risk Management

A biomedical engineering department runs weekly recalls for defibrillator to check whether any devices in their inventory are subject to active FDA recalls — exporting results to their asset management system.

2. Regulatory Intelligence

A MedTech consultancy monitors all recalls initiated in the last 90 days (dateFrom: 2024-01-01) for a specific therapeutic category to identify recurring failure modes ahead of a client's regulatory submission.

3. Journalist / Patient Safety Research

An investigative journalist queries recalls for breast implant since 2019 to compile a dataset of manufacturers, recall reasons and affected unit counts for a patient safety article.

Data Source

OpenFDA Device Recall API — official FDA data, updated daily.

Pricing

Pay-per-result on Apify. 500 recall records ≈ $2.50.

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