You can access the FDA & CPSC Product Recalls API: Food, Drug & Device programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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            "description": "Name of the monitor state (letters, digits, dashes). Use different IDs for different watchlists.",
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            "description": "Monitor mode only. The first run of a new Monitor ID (nothing saved yet) looks back this many days, so it doesn't pull a long backlog. Ignored when you set Days back or From date.",
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            "description": "Stop after this many rows (0 = no limit). Prefilled 8 so a first try costs under $0.02.",
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FDA & CPSC Product Recalls API: Food, Drug & Device OpenAPI definition

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FDA Recall Monitor: Drug, Device & Food Recall Alerts API

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🚨 Global Product Recalls — CPSC + FDA (Food/Drug/Device)

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