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FDA Recall Enforcement Reports Search & Export API

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FDA Recall Enforcement Reports Search & Export API

FDA Recall Enforcement Reports Search & Export API

Search openFDA enforcement reports for drugs, devices, and food. Filter recalls by date, class, status, location, or text for compliance exports.

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FDA Enforcement Report Finder & Export

Search openFDA enforcement reports for drugs, devices, and food. Filter recalls by date, class, status, location, or text for compliance exports.

This is an independent research/export tool. It is not an FDA alert service, is not endorsed by FDA, and must not be used for medical decisions or recall lifecycle tracking.

Try this first

Start with the example input below to compare recent Class I and Class II reports across all three product domains. Results are written to the default dataset for research export.

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Example output

Example output preview

This preview is generated from a checked-in official-source fixture. It shows the normalized output shape without inventing live demand or results.

Use cases

  • Research FDA enforcement reports across three product domains in one dataset.
  • Filter published reports by date, classification, published status, state, country, or text.
  • Export product, firm, distribution, reason, code, and drug-identifier fields into internal research or compliance workflows.

Input

FieldDescriptionDefault
productTypesDRUG, DEVICE, and/or FOODall three
daysBackPublished report window, 1 to 3,650 days90
classificationsOptional Class I, II, III, or Not Yet Classified filterall
statusesOptional published status valueall
stateOptional two-letter US statenone
countryOptional exact countrynone
keywordsLocal text match across product, firm, reason, distribution, and code fieldsnone
maxResultsHard output and billing limit100
requestDelayMsDelay between official product endpoints500

Output

Each row contains a stable product-type/recall-number ID, event and classification data, published dates and status, recalling firm and location, product description, reason, quantity, code and distribution details, available drug identifiers, source URL, attribution, and safety disclaimer.

Reliability and limits

  • Official openFDA JSON endpoints only; no page scraping, browser, proxy, account, API key, or paid service.
  • At most one request per selected product endpoint and three requests per run.
  • openFDA permits 240 anonymous requests per minute and 1,000 per day per IP; this Actor uses sequential requests with a minimum 250 ms delay.
  • Each endpoint returns at most 1,000 records. The combined output is capped at 3,000.
  • Malformed source rows with missing required identifiers, descriptions, or valid dates are counted as rejected and skipped instead of failing the complete run.
  • FDA states Enforcement Report status is not updated after publication. The field is preserved as publishedStatus, not presented as current lifecycle state.

Required safety limits

Do not rely on openFDA for medical decisions. FDA states these enforcement-report data should not be used to issue public alerts or track the lifecycle of a recall. Verify product identity, current FDA information, and appropriate professional guidance before taking action.

Pricing

  • Actor start: USD 0.00005
  • Normalized enforcement report: USD 0.001

A two-result Apify smoke run on 256 MB used USD 0.0003642041 of platform resources and completed in 22.721 seconds.

After the malformed-source-row fix, build 0.1.3 and run ZbFV9gLeFAai653IH succeeded with two FOOD results and final reported platform usage of USD 0.0000835703.

Data source and reuse

Sources: https://api.fda.gov/drug/enforcement.json, https://api.fda.gov/device/enforcement.json, and https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json.

The FDA Recall Enterprise System dataset is Public Domain/CC0. Every row includes the requested credit: “Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (https://open.fda.gov)”. No GMDN content is extracted or redistributed.

Support

Report reproducible problems with the input, run link, expected field, and recall number. Do not include private health information or unpublished safety reports.