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FDA Recall Monitor — Food, Drug & Device Enforcement Reports

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FDA Recall Monitor — Food, Drug & Device Enforcement Reports

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:

FieldExample
categoryfood
recall_numberF-1234-2026
classificationClass I (most serious)
statusOngoing
product_descriptionFrozen diced chicken, 5 lb bags…
reason_for_recallPotential Listeria monocytogenes contamination
recalling_firmAcme Foods LLC
city / state / countrySpringfield / IL / United States
report_date / recall_initiation_date2026-06-25 / 2026-06-10
distribution_patternNationwide

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.