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FDA Recalls Scraper — Drug, Food & Device Enforcement

Export FDA enforcement and recall records — recalling firm, product description, reason for recall, classification, distribution pattern and dates — across drug, food and device endpoints as clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

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🎯 What this scrapes

openFDA publishes every drug, food and device enforcement report, and it is the fastest way to see which firms are recalling what and why. The raw API paginates in a way that quietly caps you at 26 000 records and mixes three endpoints with different shapes. This Actor normalises all three into one row format and pages them properly, so a compliance watchlist becomes a spreadsheet instead of a scripting project.

🔥 What we handle for you

normalises drug, food and device endpoints into one predictable row shape stops cleanly at openFDA's 26 000-record pagination ceiling instead of looping retries transient 429/5xx responses so a rate-limit blip does not kill the run

💡 Use cases

Watch a competitor's recall history for quality-system signals before a supplier decision.
Build a compliance dashboard of Class I recalls in your product category.
Feed a supplier-risk model with recall frequency by firm and hazard class.
Track whether an ongoing recall affecting your supply chain has been terminated.

⚙️ How to use it

Click Try for free at the top of the page.
Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
`endpoint`	`string`	no	'drug'	Which openFDA enforcement endpoint to pull.
`searchQuery`	`string`	no	'classification:"Class I"'	openFDA search expression, e.g. `recalling_firm:"Pfizer"` or `classification:"Class I"`. Leave…
`sinceDate`	`string`	no	'20250101'	Only include recalls initiated on or after this date, as `YYYYMMDD`. Leave empty for no date floor.
`maxResults`	`integer`	no	100	Stop after this many records. Each record is one billed result row.
`proxyConfiguration`	`object`	no	{'useApifyProxy': False}	openFDA is a public government API and does not need a proxy. Leave this off unless your account requires egress…

Example input

{
  "endpoint": "drug",
  "searchQuery": "classification:\"Class I\"",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
`recall_number`	`string`	FDA recall identifier.
`event_id`	`string`	FDA enforcement event id grouping related recalls.
`endpoint`	`string`	Which enforcement endpoint the row came from: `drug`, `food` or `device`.
`status`	`string`	Recall status, e.g. `Ongoing`, `Completed`, `Terminated`.
`classification`	`string`	Hazard class — `Class I`, `Class II` or `Class III`.
`recalling_firm`	`string`	Firm conducting the recall.
`city`	`string`	Recalling firm city.
`state`	`string`	Recalling firm state.
`country`	`string`	Recalling firm country.
`product_type`	`string`	Product type as reported by FDA.
`product_description`	`string`	Product description text.
`product_quantity`	`string`	Quantity in distribution, as published.
`reason_for_recall`	`string`	Stated reason for the recall.
`distribution_pattern`	`string`	Where the product was distributed.
`voluntary_mandated`	`string`	Whether the recall was voluntary or FDA-mandated.
`recall_initiation_date`	`string`	Date the recall began (`YYYYMMDD`).
`report_date`	`string`	Date FDA published the report (`YYYYMMDD`).
`termination_date`	`string`	Date the recall was terminated, when applicable.

Example output

{}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
`actor-start`	$0.05	One-off warm-up charge per run
`result`	$0.002	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $2.05. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

openFDA caps pagination at 26 000 records per query — narrow the search or the date floor to go deeper.
Date fields are passed through in FDA's YYYYMMDD string form rather than being reformatted.

❓ FAQ

Do I need an API key?

No. openFDA serves this data keylessly; the Actor stays inside the anonymous rate limit.

Can I pull all three recall types at once?

Run the Actor once per endpoint — the row shape is identical, so the datasets append cleanly.

Why is there a 26 000 record ceiling?

openFDA's skip parameter refuses to page past 26 000. The Actor stops cleanly at that boundary and tells you in the log rather than looping.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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