FDA Food, Drug & Medical Device Recalls — Official Radar

Monitor FDA weekly Enforcement Report changes for food, drugs, and medical devices by company and hazard class. Each record provides recall number, official FDA classification, recalling firm, product, reason, publication date, source API link and unmodified caveats.

Source: openFDA enforcement APIs (weekly reports, not real-time notices). This is not an emergency consumer warning system, medical advice, or evidence of stock impact. Food/drug/device official source limitations, corrections and publication delays apply. Only metadata and short source excerpts are shown; no private patient information.

Buyers: supply-chain QA teams, retailers, regulatory consultants, business risk data pipelines. Stable recall identifiers and run-to-run exclusion IDs enable recurring monitoring. The openFDA service is free, so pricing pays for developer convenience, not rights in the source data. Refer to the current Apify Store Pricing tab for actual charges.

Example: FDA food recalls by report date

This Actor helps quality-assurance teams build an FDA recall monitoring API without parsing multiple source formats manually.

{"category":"food","daysBack":180,"maxResults":25,"classifications":["Class I","Class II"]}

Each delivered row has a stable recallNumber, FDA classification, recallingFirm, reportDate, and official sourceUrl. Pass previously processed numbers in excludeRecallNumbers to return only unseen recall records. This does not imply completeness for a particular date or an emergency notification SLA.

How to automate

1. Run once with a small maxResults and validate the returned source URLs.
2. Store recallNumber values in your own database, then pass them back through excludeRecallNumbers.
3. Schedule an appropriate polling interval through an Apify Task or invoke the Actor from n8n, Make, or your data pipeline.

Pricing and limitations

Use the current Pricing tab on this Actor's Apify Store page as the authoritative live price. Older experiment amounts in development notes may differ. The underlying openFDA endpoint is free; the commercial service adds repeatable filtering, bounded execution and machine-readable results.

Never use this feed alone to decide whether a product is safe to sell or use. Compare with FDA and manufacturers' direct notices.