FDA Recalls Monitor — Drug, Device & Food Recalls → JSON (with stock tickers)

Search and monitor FDA enforcement recalls (drug, device, food) through the official openFDA API. No browser, no proxy: a public government API, so it's fast, reliable, and fully legal. Recall data is de-identified public enforcement information.

What it does

Query openFDA's enforcement datasets by category, keyword, status, and severity class, and get clean, flattened recall records — recall reason, recalling firm, classification, distribution, dates, and more.

Bonus: recalling firm → stock ticker

A recall is a market-moving event. When the recalling firm is a publicly-traded company, this actor maps it to its stock ticker + SEC CIK (via SEC's official company list, with a conservative match plus an alias table for big pharma like JNJ/PFE/ABBV). Most recallers are private or foreign generic makers (so ticker is often null) — but when it matches, you get a high-signal, ticker-tagged event. Turn it off with mapTickers: false.

Input

Field	Description
category	drug, device, or food
keyword	Optional term matched on product description (e.g. insulin)
status	Ongoing, Completed, Terminated, Pending, or empty for all
classification	Class I (most serious), Class II, Class III, or empty
maxResults	Max recalls to return
mapTickers	Add ticker + CIK for matched recalling firms (default true)

Output (one item per recall)

{
  "recallNumber": "D-1234-2026",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "classification": "Class II",
  "recallingFirm": "Example Pharma Inc",
  "ticker": null,
  "cik": null,
  "reason": "Failed dissolution specifications",
  "productDescription": "...",
  "city": "Trenton", "state": "NJ", "country": "United States",
  "recallInitiationDate": "20260512",
  "reportDate": "20260601"
}

Use cases

• Pharma / medtech / food safety — monitor recalls in your category or by competitor.
• Quant / alternative data — ticker-tagged recall events as risk signals.
• Compliance & QA — track Class I/II recalls relevant to your supply chain.

Pricing

Pay-per-result (PPE): billed per recall returned. Schedule it for a fresh recall feed.

Legal & data notes

All data comes from the official openFDA enforcement API (public, de-identified enforcement records). Ticker mapping uses SEC's public company_tickers.json.