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FDA Recall Monitor — Drugs, Devices & Food

Watch FDA enforcement reports for the products you care about. Diff-based: each run reports only NEW recalls since the last check. 'Nothing new' is the product.

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Why diff-based beats a data dump

Raw recall data is free and several tools dump it. What costs you time is watching it. This Actor remembers every recall it has already shown you (per named monitor state), so a scheduled daily run gives you one of two answers:

"N new recalls" — each as a full dataset record, Class I first
"Nothing new" — a run-summary row confirming the check happened

Wire the run summary to an email/Slack alert in the Console and you have a recall desk for cents a day.

Input

Field	Description
`sectors`	`drug`, `device`, `food` — any combination
`searchTerms`	Matched against product descriptions ("insulin", "catheter", "infant formula"). Empty = whole sector
`classifications`	`Class I` (serious), `Class II`, `Class III`
`lookbackDays`	First-run scan window (default 90). Later runs diff against remembered state
`stateName`	Name your monitor — run several independent monitors side by side
`apiKey`	Optional free openFDA key for higher rate limits

Output record (new recall)

{
  "is_new": true,
  "sector": "device",
  "recall_number": "Z-1544-2026",
  "classification": "Class II",
  "report_date": "20260318",
  "recalling_firm": "…",
  "product_description": "…",
  "reason_for_recall": "…",
  "distribution_pattern": "Nationwide",
  "code_info": "Lot …"
}

Every run also emits one run_summary row with new_recalls, class_1_new, and total_tracked counts — that's your alert hook and your audit trail.

Who this is for

Med-device & pharma quality/regulatory teams — competitor and component surveillance
Hospital supply chain & GPOs — is anything we buy on this week's list?
Food safety teams & retailers — ingredient and supplier watch
Litigation researchers & investors — early signal on enforcement activity

Suggested setup

Daily schedule, one monitor per product family, alert on class_1_new > 0 and on run failure. First run seeds state (larger output); every run after is pure diff.

Notes

Data source: official openFDA enforcement API — public, no login, built for programmatic reuse.
openFDA data lags FDA press releases by days in some cases; this is a monitoring layer, not an emergency-broadcast system.
Output is provided as-is and is not regulatory or legal advice.

Pricing

Event	Price
Monitoring check (per run)	$0.05
Per new recall surfaced	$0.02

A daily monitor that surfaces 10 new recalls a month: **$1.70/month**.

FAQ

How is this different from just checking the FDA website? State. The monitor remembers every recall it has shown you (per named monitor), so a scheduled run reports only what's new. The FDA site makes you re-read everything.

How fresh is the data? It reads the official openFDA enforcement API, which can lag FDA press announcements by days. Treat it as reliable surveillance, not an emergency broadcast.

Can I run separate monitors for different product lines? Yes — set a different stateName per monitor. Each remembers its own history.

What should I schedule? Daily is typical. Alert on the run summary's class_1_new > 0 for serious recalls, or on any new_recalls > 0.

Do I need an API key? No. An optional free openFDA key raises rate limits for heavy use.

What does it cost to run daily? ~$1.50/month for the checks plus $0.02 per new recall surfaced — a monitor surfacing 10 recalls/month costs about $1.70.

Changelog

2026-08-22 — Demo mode for empty input; run summaries hardened for alerting.
2026-08-20 — Launch: diff-based monitoring across drug/device/food with named persistent monitors.

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