FDA Drug Recalls Lookup — official openFDA API, no login
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$1.00 / 1,000 fda recall record scrapeds
FDA Drug Recalls Lookup — official openFDA API, no login
Look up any pharmaceutical company's FDA drug recall history via the official openFDA API (api.fda.gov): recall reason, classification (Class I/II/III), affected product, initiation date, and status. CC0 licensed U.S. government data, no login, no proxies, no API key required.
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Look up any pharmaceutical company's U.S. FDA drug recall history through openFDA
(api.fda.gov), the FDA's own official public API. No login, no proxies, no API key — this
reads the same structured JSON endpoint the FDA publishes for exactly this purpose.
CC0 1.0 licensed open data: free to use commercially, no permission or attribution required (source: open.fda.gov/license/, open.fda.gov/terms/ — "you may copy, modify, distribute... even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission", checked 2026-09-02).
Tested (2026-09-02)
| Target | Records found |
|---|---|
Pfizer | 155 |
| (nonexistent company) | 0 (no charge) |
FDA recalls API — input
Each target is a company name as it appears in FDA recall records (exact match on
recalling_firm). A company with no recalls on file simply returns 0 items (no charge).
FDA recalls API — output fields
One dataset item per recall record:
| Field | |
|---|---|
recalling_firm | company that issued the recall |
product_description | the recalled product, as described by FDA |
reason_for_recall | why it was recalled |
classification | Class I (most serious) / Class II / Class III |
product_type | e.g. Drugs |
recall_initiation_date / report_date / termination_date | recall timeline |
status | Ongoing / Terminated / Completed |
voluntary_mandated | whether FDA-mandated or firm-initiated |
recall_number | FDA's unique recall ID |
state / country | where the recalling firm is located |
distribution_pattern | where the product was distributed |
No personal data: these are company- and product-level recall records, not individual patient or consumer data.
Use Cases
- Supply-chain risk monitoring: check whether a supplier or vendor has an active Class I/II recall before you rely on them
- Pharma M&A due diligence: pull a target company's full recall history in one batch call instead of manual FDA website lookups
- Compliance/QA pipelines: feed recall records as structured data into a risk dashboard or alerting system
- Insurance/underwriting: recall frequency and classification as a risk signal for pharma-sector policies
Why this over FDA's own website
FDA's recall search is built for one lookup at a time in a browser. This actor runs a batch of company names in one call and hands back structured rows — for pharma due-diligence, supply-chain monitoring, or compliance pipelines that need this as data, not a web page.
Pricing
Pay per event: $1.00 per 1,000 recall records collected. Nothing else.
