Canada Drug Approvals Tracker – Health Canada Notice of Compliance (NOC) Database

Get every Health Canada drug approval (Notice of Compliance, NOC) as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: new drugs, new active substances, generics (ANDS), biosimilars, supplements, veterinary and non-prescription drugs, with brand names, DINs, medicinal ingredients and strengths, dosage forms, routes, therapeutic class and the Canadian reference product. Filter by keyword, company, product type, submission type and date, or schedule it as a "new approvals only" monitor.

• ✅ Official Health Canada NOC Database API (updated nightly, human drugs since 1994). No scraping, no login, no API key
• ✅ One row per NOC, already joined with products, DINs, ingredients, strengths, forms and routes (the raw API spreads these over 6 endpoints)
• ✅ newActiveSubstanceOnly for genuinely new medicines, submissionTypes: ["ANDS"] for generic entries
• ✅ onlyNew monitoring mode: scheduled runs return only NOCs you haven't received yet
• ✅ English or French
• ✅ Pay only for the results you get. maxItems and Apify's "max cost per run" both cap your spend

Who it's for

• Generic and biosimilar manufacturers, pharma BD and market-access teams watching competitor approvals and first-generic entries (e.g. the 2026 semaglutide generics)
• Pharmacy chains, wholesalers and formulary managers who need new DINs as soon as they're authorized
• Investors, analysts and consultants tracking Canadian regulatory milestones
• Regulatory-intelligence tools and AI agents that need structured Canadian approval data

Input

Field	What it does	Default
language	en or fr	en
keywords	Brand name, DIN, ingredient, manufacturer, therapeutic class or reason contains any of these	["semaglutide","adalimumab"] (prefill)
manufacturers	Manufacturer name contains any of these	all
productTypes	Prescription Pharmaceutical, Biologic, Nonprescription Pharmaceutical, Veterinary, Radiopharmaceutical	all
submissionTypes	NDS, SNDS, ANDS, SANDS	all
newActiveSubstanceOnly	Only New Active Substance (NAS / Priority-NAS) NOCs	off
includeAdministrative	Include administrative NOCs (name changes etc., about ⅓ of the database)	off
approvedWithinDays / approvedSince	Date window on the NOC date	90 days
onlyNew	Return only NOCs not returned before	off
maxItems	Hard cap on results (and on cost), newest first	200

Example: a weekly "new generics" alert

{ "submissionTypes": ["ANDS"], "approvedWithinDays": 14, "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 500 }

Output

One row per Notice of Compliance. A real record from a live test (29 Sep 2026, long lists shortened):

{
  "nocNumber": 38299,
  "nocDate": "2026-09-16",
  "manufacturer": "SANDOZ CANADA INCORPORATED",
  "brandNames": [
    "SANDOZ SEMAGLUTIDE"
  ],
  "dins": [
    "02571501",
    "02571528"
  ],
  "medicinalIngredients": [
    "SEMAGLUTIDE"
  ],
  "productType": "Prescription Pharmaceutical",
  "submissionType": "Abbreviated New Drug Submission (ANDS)",
  "submissionTypeCode": "ANDS",
  "submissionClass": "Labelling Only",
  "isSupplement": false,
  "isAdministrative": false,
  "withConditions": false,
  "reasonForSupplement": null,
  "reasonForSubmission": "Administrative: Licensing Agreement between two manufacturers",
  "therapeuticClass": null,
  "canadianReferenceProduct": {
    "productName": "OZEMPIC",
    "company": "NOVO NORDISK CANADA INC",
    "country": "CANADA"
  },
  "vetSpecies": [],
  "products": [
    {
      "brandName": "SANDOZ SEMAGLUTIDE",
      "din": "02571501",
      "ingredients": [
        {
          "name": "SEMAGLUTIDE",
          "strength": 2.0,
          "unit": "MG",
          "per": "PEN"
        }
      ],
      "dosageForms": [
        "Solution"
      ],
      "routes": [
        "Subcutaneous"
      ]
    },
    {
      "brandName": "SANDOZ SEMAGLUTIDE",
      "din": "02571528",
      "ingredients": [
        {
          "name": "SEMAGLUTIDE",
          "strength": 4.0,
          "unit": "MG",
          "per": "PEN"
        }
      ],
      "dosageForms": [
        "Solution"
      ],
      "routes": [
        "Subcutaneous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lastUpdated": null,
  "url": "https://health-products.canada.ca/noc-ac/nocInfo?lang=eng&no=38299",
  "language": "en",
  "source": "Health Canada – Notice of Compliance (NOC) Database API",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Canada",
  "attribution": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T22:51:31+00:00"
}

The full field list is in .actor/dataset_schema.json; more real rows are in sample_output.json. The Overview table view shows date, brands, ingredients, manufacturer, submission, class and a link to the official NOC record.

Scheduling an approvals monitor

1. Save your input as a Task with onlyNew: true.
2. Add a daily Schedule (Health Canada refreshes the database nightly).
3. Add a webhook or integration (Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make) on Run succeeded.

State is kept in the named key-value store canada-noc-state. Delete it to start over.

Pricing

Pay per result. You're charged once per NOC written to the dataset. Runs that find nothing new cost only Apify's standard start event.

Data source, licence and privacy

• Source: Health Canada Notice of Compliance Database API – https://health-products.canada.ca/api/documentation/noc-documentation-en.html (dataset: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a661b339-305f-4a41-96a3-2f5b12bcbf55).
• Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Commercial use allowed with attribution; every row carries "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada."
• Company and product data only. No personal information.
• Unofficial tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Health Canada. The official NOC record (url) is the source of truth.

Limits and notes

• therapeuticClass, reasonForSupplement and reasonForSubmission are often empty in the source.
• approvedWithinDays defaults to 90. Set it to 0 to search the whole history (38,000+ NOCs).
• A NOC authorizes a submission; it isn't the same as a product being marketed. Check the Drug Product Database for market status.