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FDA Food & Drug Recall Search (Official API)

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Search FDA recall enforcement reports through the official openFDA API. Filter by product type, severity class, status, country and date. No API key needed. Public domain U.S. government data.

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What it does

The FDA publishes every food and drug recall as a structured enforcement report: who recalled it, what the product was, why it was recalled, how serious it is, where it was distributed, and when.

This Actor searches those reports and returns them as flat rows you can open in a spreadsheet.

Why this Actor

Official API only. Calls api.fda.gov. No HTML scraping.
No API key. openFDA is open to anyone.
Public domain. U.S. government data.
Flat rows. The nested openfda block is expanded into openfda_* columns, and list fields are joined with ; instead of being dumped as raw arrays.

Filters

Input	What it does
`product_type`	`food` or `drug` recalls
`search`	Free text, e.g. `salmonella`, `undeclared peanut`, `contamination`
`classification`	`Class I` (most serious), `Class II`, `Class III`
`status`	`Ongoing`, `Completed`, `Terminated`, `Pending`
`country`	Country of the recalling firm
`date_start` / `date_end`	Report date range, `YYYYMMDD`
`max_results`	How many records to return

Output fields

Field	Description
`recall_number`	FDA recall identifier, e.g. `F-0276-2017`
`recalling_firm`, `city`, `state`, `country`	Who recalled, and from where
`product_description`	What was recalled
`reason_for_recall`	Why
`classification`	Severity class
`status`	Current recall status
`distribution_pattern`	Where it was distributed
`product_quantity`, `code_info`	Amount and lot/code identifiers
`voluntary_mandated`, `initial_firm_notification`	How the recall was initiated and announced
`recall_initiation_date`, `center_classification_date`, `report_date`, `termination_date`	Key dates (`YYYYMMDD`)
`openfda_*`	Drug identifiers when FDA provides them (often empty)

Example

Class I food recalls mentioning salmonella:

{
  "product_type": "food",
  "search": "salmonella",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "max_results": 200
}

Use cases

Monitoring recalls for a brand, ingredient or supplier
Building a recall history dataset for food safety or supply chain analysis
Tracking which firms and regions recall most often
Feeding recall alerts into your own system on a schedule

Running locally

pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m tests.test_fda

Attribution and limits

Data from openFDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the FDA. openFDA states that its data should not be used to make medical decisions, and that records may be incomplete or delayed. Always confirm against the official record before acting on it.

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