# Canada Medical Device Companies – Health Canada MDALL (`loudtzu/canada-medical-device-companies`) Actor

Companies holding Health Canada medical device licences (MDALL official API): company ID, name, city, region, country, status. No street addresses.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loudtzu/canada-medical-device-companies.md
- **Developed by:** [Travis M](https://apify.com/loudtzu) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Canada Medical Device Companies – Health Canada MDALL

### What it does

Downloads the **company list** from Health Canada's official Medical Devices Active Licence Listing (MDALL) API. That is every manufacturer that holds or has held a Canadian medical device licence (~7,700 companies, updated daily). It returns company ID, name, city, region, country and status, filtered as requested. One API request per run.

Source: [MDALL on open.canada.ca](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c801a084-210b-4cd2-8513-26a00b66eb6f), [MDALL API documentation](https://health-products.canada.ca/api/documentation/mdall-documentation-en.html).

### Who it's for

Medtech sales and distribution teams, regulatory consultants, market researchers and suppliers looking for licensed device manufacturers by country or province.

### Input

| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
| `companyName` | contains, e.g. `Medtronic` |
| `countryCode` | 2 letters, e.g. `CA`, `US`, `DE` |
| `regionCode` | province/state code, e.g. `NS`, `ON` |
| `city` | contains |
| `status` | `Active` (default), `Inactive` or `all` |
| `maxItems` | default 100, maximum 50,000 |

Example: `{"countryCode": "CA", "regionCode": "NS"}`

### Output

`companyId`, `companyName`, `companyNameWithheld`, `legalFormDetected`, `city`, `regionCode`, `countryCode`, `status`, `source`, `licence`.

### Privacy

- **Street addresses and postal codes are never exported:** `addr_line_1`, `addr_line_2`, `addr_line_3` and `postal_code` are dropped. The API has no contact names, emails or phones.
- **Names that look like individuals are blanked by a rule-based filter**, not by a full check. A company name with no legal-form or business words is treated as a person if it matches one of these patterns: one person ("J. POHLER", "DR. JOHN SMITH"), two people joined by & or AND, or SURNAME (GIVEN NAME). For those, `companyName` and `city` are set to null and `companyNameWithheld` to true; region and country stay. On the Oct 16, 2026 data this affected 1 of 7,677 companies. Bare acronyms (e.g. "GN OTOMETRICS") and names with business words are kept, so a sole proprietor trading under a personal name plus a business word ("JOHN SMITH MEDICAL") is shown.
- **QA check (Oct 19, 2026):** a random sample of 441 distinct company names from a full run had 0 personal names (0%). Some firms are named after their founders (e.g. a surname plus "Medizintechnik GmbH"); these are businesses and are kept.
- The output is **reduced, not anonymous**: street addresses and postal codes are dropped, but company name, city, region and country remain and can point to a small business or its owner.
- `legalFormDetected` flags names that carry a legal-form word (Inc, Ltd, GmbH, SA, KFT, ...). About 88% do; the rest are kept as published.
- Licence and device lists are not included in v0.1 (company records only).

### Licence and terms

- **Licence:** [Open Government Licence – Canada](https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada), which allows use "including for commercial purposes" with attribution. Every row carries the attribution.
- **Automated access:** this is the official public API that Health Canada lists on open.canada.ca. `health-products.canada.ca` has no robots.txt (404), so nothing is disallowed. No terms were found that ban automated use. The Actor makes one request per run.
- Independent; not endorsed by Health Canada.

### Pricing

**Price: $0.003 per result, no start fee** (pay per event `apify-default-dataset-item`, one result = one company). All ~7,600 active companies cost about $23.

### Limits

- English values only. Status codes other than A or I are passed through as published.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

e.g. Medtronic.

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

2 letters, e.g. CA, US, DE.

## `regionCode` (type: `string`):

Province/state code, e.g. ON, QC, CA.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Optional.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Company status.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many items (1–50,000, default 100).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "status": "Active",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All items returned by the run, in the 'overview' table view.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loudtzu/canada-medical-device-companies").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loudtzu/canada-medical-device-companies").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call loudtzu/canada-medical-device-companies --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loudtzu/canada-medical-device-companies"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/eIYRIBkZkt7YA7Agt/builds/0RsM28HuQFoiNiQPV/openapi.json