FDA Recalls Scraper API — Food, Drug & Device Recalls

Search and monitor FDA recalls and enforcement reports across food, drugs, and medical devices via the official openFDA API. Filter by keyword, classification (Class I/II/III), and report date; run on a schedule in incremental mode to catch every new recall the day FDA publishes it. Clean, flat JSON records for supply-chain risk, QA, retail compliance, and news monitoring.

Quick start

1. Click Start with the prefilled search listeria in food recalls. It finishes in under a minute.
2. You get up to 25 recall reports with firm, product, reason and classification.
3. That first run costs at most $0.08, well within Apify's free monthly credit. Then swap in your own input or schedule it.

What you get

{
  "recall_number": "F-0609-2015",
  "event_id": "69516",
  "product_type": "Food",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "status": "Terminated",
  "recalling_firm": "Oasis Brands, Inc",
  "city": "Miami",
  "state": "FL",
  "country": "United States",
  "product_description": "Crema GuateLinda (Guatemalan Style Cream)...",
  "reason_for_recall": "Virginia State (VDACS) found Listeria monocytogenes...",
  "product_quantity": "144 pieces",
  "distribution_pattern": "FL, GA, NC, and TN",
  "voluntary_mandated": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
  "recall_initiation_date": "2014-10-01",
  "report_date": "2014-10-15",
  "source_url": "https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?...",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-11T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Supply-chain risk: monitor recalls touching your suppliers, ingredients, or product categories.
• Retail & food-service compliance: daily incremental runs feed your QA workflow automatically.
• Healthcare & pharmacovigilance: track drug and device Class I recalls as they publish.
• AI agents: small input schema, deterministic output — ideal via API or MCP.

Input

Field	Type	Notes
category	food | drug | device	Which enforcement database
searchTerm	string	Optional keywords
classifications	string[]	Class I, Class II, Class III
reportedAfter	YYYY-MM-DD	Lower bound on report date
maxResults	integer	Cap on charged results (default 100)
sinceLastRun	boolean	Incremental monitoring mode

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	Meaning
recall-result	$3.00 per 1,000 ($0.003 each)	One recall record delivered. Empty runs are never charged.

Example: 1,000 recall records cost $3.00. You only pay for delivered results.

factpipe Compliance Suite

Official-source compliance data, all pay-per-result and runnable from one Apify account. Same conventions everywhere: flat records, ISO dates, source_url and fetched_at on every row, and no charge for empty or failed lookups, so outputs join cleanly in a single KYB, AML or GRC pipeline.

Workflow	Actor	What it does	Price
Counterparty & KYB checks	OFAC Sanctions Screening	Screen names against the US Treasury SDN list with fuzzy matching	$3/1k
Counterparty & KYB checks	EU VAT Validation	Validate EU VAT numbers in bulk against VIES, with registered name and address	$2/1k
Counterparty & KYB checks	UK Companies House Lookup	Company status, SIC codes and registered office from Companies House	$2.50/1k
Public-sector sales intelligence	SAM.gov Contracts	Federal contract opportunities, set-asides and deadlines from SAM.gov	$2/1k
Public-sector sales intelligence	EU Tenders (TED)	EU public procurement notices from TED, filterable by CPV and country	$3/1k
Regulatory & disclosure monitoring	Federal Register Monitor	New US rules, proposed rules and notices by agency or keyword	$2.50/1k
Regulatory & disclosure monitoring	FDA Recalls Monitor (this Actor)	FDA food, drug and device recall enforcement reports	$3/1k
Regulatory & disclosure monitoring	SEC EDGAR Filings	Full-text search across 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other SEC filings	$2/1k

Use it together:

• Product safety and supplier risk: track new recalls here, follow related rulemaking with Federal Register, and check recalling firms' disclosures in SEC EDGAR Filings.

FAQ

Do I need an openFDA API key? No. The Actor calls the official openFDA enforcement endpoints without a key and respects their rate limits.

Can I get only serious (Class I) recalls? Yes. Set classifications to Class I and schedule daily with sinceLastRun: true for a new-recall alert feed.

Which recalls are covered? All openFDA enforcement reports for food, drugs and medical devices, with recalling firm, product, reason, quantity and distribution pattern.

Can I call it from Python, JavaScript, Make, Zapier or an AI agent? Yes. Run it through the Apify API or official Python/JavaScript clients, connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack or Google Sheets via Apify integrations, or expose it to AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Input is small and output is deterministic flat JSON.

Reliability

Official openFDA API, polite rate limiting, retries with backoff, structured failure reporting, daily issue triage.