FDA Recall Monitor — Food, Drug & Device Enforcement Reports
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FDA Recall Monitor — Food, Drug & Device Enforcement Reports
Track new FDA recall enforcement reports across food, drugs, and medical devices from the official openFDA API — classification, product, reason, firm, and distribution details.
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Track new FDA recall enforcement reports across food, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices — straight from the official openFDA API.
Recalls move markets, empty shelves, and trigger liability. FDA publishes enforcement reports weekly; this actor turns them into a clean, filterable dataset within minutes of your schedule.
Who uses this
- Food safety & QA teams — watch for ingredient and supplier recalls that touch your products
- Retailers & distributors — pull recalled SKUs before customers find them
- Law firms & insurers — Class I recalls are case and claim signals
- CPG competitive intel & journalists — who's recalling, how often, and why
What you get
One dataset row per enforcement report:
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
category | food |
recall_number | F-1234-2026 |
classification | Class I (most serious) |
status | Ongoing |
product_description | Frozen diced chicken, 5 lb bags… |
reason_for_recall | Potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination |
recalling_firm | Acme Foods LLC |
city / state / country | Springfield / IL / United States |
report_date / recall_initiation_date | 2026-06-25 / 2026-06-10 |
distribution_pattern | Nationwide |
Input
- sinceDays — look-back window (default 30; FDA publishes weekly)
- categories — any of
food,drug,device(default all three) - classifications — optional filter:
Class I,Class II,Class III - maxItems — cap on results
- apiKey — optional free openFDA key for higher rate limits
Typical setups
- Weekly Class I alert: schedule weekly,
classifications: ["Class I"], export to Slack/email via Apify integrations. - Food-only watch:
categories: ["food"],sinceDays: 14, feed your QA dashboard. - Research backfill:
sinceDays: 365,maxItems: 10000.
Data source & legality
Official openFDA enforcement endpoints (api.fda.gov). Public US government data; no scraping, no ToS issues. Note openFDA's standard disclaimer: data is not for clinical decision-making.