EU Health & Compliance Data Search

Search 17 official European health and compliance data sources in a single API call — EMA authorized medicines, EUDAMED medical devices (1.48 million entries), CTIS clinical trials, ECDC disease surveillance, EFSA food safety data, EU Ecolabel products, and industrial emissions. All data comes directly from European regulatory agencies through the SIP Public Data Gateway.

What is EU Health & Compliance Data Search?

EU Health & Compliance Data Search is an Apify Actor that queries official European health and environmental compliance databases. Instead of navigating EMA, EUDAMED, CTIS, ECDC, and EFSA portals separately, you search them all at once with a single keyword.

The Actor calls the SIP Public Data Gateway — a unified API that normalizes responses from 17 EU health and compliance data products. No browser, no scraping — just HTTPS API calls to official regulatory sources.

Why use EU Health & Compliance Data Search?

• One search, 17 sources — Query EMA medicines, EUDAMED devices, clinical trials, and compliance registers simultaneously
• Official regulatory data — All sources are public databases from EMA, ECDC, EFSA, and the European Commission
• 1.48 million medical devices — EUDAMED is the largest EU medical device database, mandatory under MDR/IVDR
• Drug safety monitoring — EMA PSUSAs, safety communications, shortages, and post-authorisation data in one place
• No upstream API keys — SIP handles authentication with all EU health APIs; you only need one SIP key

Use cases

Who	What
Pharma regulatory affairs	Monitor EMA authorizations, EPAR documents, orphan designations, and drug shortages
Medical device companies	Search EUDAMED for registered devices, compliance status under MDR/IVDR
Clinical research organizations	Find EU clinical trials in CTIS, track paediatric investigation plans
Pharmacovigilance teams	Monitor PSUSAs, safety communications, and post-authorisation studies
Environmental compliance	Search EU Ecolabel, EMAS registrations, E-PRTR emissions data
Food safety analysts	Access EFSA OpenFoodTox chemical hazard data
RegTech companies	Bulk-query EU health registers for regulatory monitoring

What data can EU Health & Compliance Data Search extract?

Source	Data type	Example fields
EMA medicines	EU-authorized human medicines	medicine_name, active_substance, therapeutic_area, authorisation_status
EMA EPAR	European public assessment reports	product_name, document_type, date
EMA herbal medicines	Traditional herbal medicines	herbal_substance, indication, therapeutic_area
EMA orphan designations	Rare disease drug designations	medicine_name, condition, sponsor, designation_status
EMA paediatric plans	Paediatric investigation plans	medicine_name, decision_type, condition
EMA post-authorisation	Post-marketing studies and data	medicine_name, study_type, status
EMA shortages	Medicine supply shortages	medicine_name, shortage_type, start_date
EMA PSUSAs	Periodic safety update assessments	active_substance, outcome, date
EMA safety comms	Safety communications and referrals	title, category, date
EUDAMED devices	1.48M registered medical devices	device_name, manufacturer, risk_class, udi
CTIS clinical trials	11,000+ EU clinical trials	trial_title, sponsor, status, therapeutic_area
ECDC surveillance	Communicable disease surveillance	disease, country, cases, rate
EU Ecolabel	Eco-certified products	product_name, category, licence_number
EFSA OpenFoodTox	Chemical hazard data	substance, endpoint, species, value
EMAS registrations	Environmental management registrations	organisation, country, nace_code
E-PRTR emissions	Industrial pollutant releases	facility, pollutant, quantity, country
ESMA sanctions	Financial market sanctions	entity, sanction_type, date

How to search EU health data

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console
2. Enter search terms (e.g. "ibuprofen", "pacemaker", "clinical trial diabetes")
3. Select data categories — medicines and devices are enabled by default
4. Click Start — the Actor queries all enabled sources in parallel
5. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["ibuprofen", "paracetamol"],
  "includeEmaMedicines": true,
  "includeMedicalDevices": false,
  "includeClinicalTrials": true,
  "includeEnvironmentalCompliance": false,
  "maxResultsPerSource": 50
}

Output

Each row is a record from an EU health or compliance source:

{
  "medicine_name": "Ibuprofen Lannacher",
  "active_substance": "ibuprofen",
  "therapeutic_area": "Pain, inflammation",
  "authorisation_status": "Authorised",
  "_product_id": "eu_ema_medicines",
  "_source": "ema_medicines",
  "_search_term": "ibuprofen",
  "_collected_at": "2026-04-08T12:00:00Z"
}

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event pricing based on records returned:

• Quick drug lookup (1 term, EMA only): ~$0.01–0.10
• Device compliance scan (5 terms, all sources): ~$0.50–3.00

No browser overhead. Control costs with maxResultsPerSource.

Data sources (17 EU products)

Category	Sources	Count
EMA medicines & drug safety	Medicines, EPAR, herbal, orphan, paediatric, post-auth, shortages, PSUSAs, safety comms	9
Medical devices	EUDAMED (1.48M devices)	1
Clinical trials & surveillance	CTIS, ECDC atlas	2
Environmental & food compliance	Ecolabel, EFSA OpenFoodTox, EMAS, E-PRTR, ESMA sanctions	5

FAQ

What is EUDAMED? The European Database on Medical Devices — mandatory registration under MDR (2017/745) and IVDR (2017/746). Contains 1.48 million device entries with manufacturer, risk class, and UDI information. Full compliance required by May 2026.

How current is EMA data? EMA databases update continuously as new authorizations, safety signals, and shortage reports are published. SIP caches responses briefly but always fetches from official EMA APIs.

Can I monitor drug shortages? Yes. Search for a medicine name with includeEmaMedicines enabled to find active shortage reports, safety communications, and PSUSA outcomes.

Is ECDC surveillance data real-time? ECDC Surveillance Atlas data is updated weekly to monthly depending on the disease. It provides epidemiological indicators, not real-time case counts.

Use as MCP Tool (AI Agent Integration)

This Actor works as an MCP tool — AI agents (Claude, GPT, Cursor) can discover and run it automatically.

Quick setup (Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code)

Add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then ask your AI: "Search for ibuprofen in EU health databases"

Direct API call

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("lentic_clockss/eu-health-compliance-search").call(
    run_input={"searchTerms": ["ibuprofen"], "maxResultsPerSource": 50}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

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