🏥 FDA Recalls Scraper - Food, Drug & Device Safety

Whether you're a compliance officer monitoring product safety, a supply chain manager tracking recalls, or a researcher analyzing FDA enforcement trends, this tool makes it easy to collect structured recall data from the FDA's official enforcement database.

The FDA Recalls Scraper collects enforcement actions for food, drugs, and medical devices. Get recall reasons, classifications, product descriptions, recalling firms, distribution patterns, and key dates from the openFDA API.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🍎 Food recalls - collect food safety recalls including contamination, allergen, and labeling issues
• 💊 Drug recalls - track pharmaceutical recall actions, dosage errors, and contamination events
• 🏥 Medical device recalls - monitor device safety issues, malfunctions, and defects
• 🔍 Powerful filters - search by keyword, classification severity, status, state, and date range
• 📊 84,000+ records - access the complete FDA enforcement database going back years

🔧 Input

• Product Type - choose Food, Drugs, Medical Devices, or All
• Max Items - how many recalls to collect (free users get 10, paid up to 1,000,000)
• Search Query - search across all fields (e.g., 'salmonella', 'peanut butter', 'insulin')
• Classification - Class I (most serious), Class II, or Class III
• Status - Ongoing, Terminated, or Completed
• State - filter by state where the recalling firm is located
• Date Range - filter by report date (YYYYMMDD format)

{
    "productType": "food",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "searchQuery": "salmonella",
    "classification": "Class I",
    "status": "Ongoing"
}

📊 Output

Each recall record includes 22+ data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📌 Field	📄 Description
📋 recallNumber	FDA recall number
🏷️ productType	Food, Drug, or Device
⚠️ classification	Severity (Class I/II/III)
📊 status	Ongoing, Terminated, or Completed
🏢 recallingFirm	Company issuing the recall
📝 productDescription	Description of recalled product
❗ reasonForRecall	Why the product was recalled
📦 productQuantity	Quantity of recalled product
🗺️ distributionPattern	Where the product was distributed
📅 reportDate	Date the recall was reported

{
    "recallNumber": "F-0276-2017",
    "productType": "food",
    "classification": "Class II",
    "status": "Terminated",
    "recallingFirm": "Pharmatech LLC",
    "productDescription": "CytoDetox, Dietary supplement",
    "reasonForRecall": "Potential risk of product contamination with Burkholderia cepacia.",
    "productQuantity": "1,990 bottles",
    "distributionPattern": "FL, MI, MS, and OH.",
    "city": "Davie",
    "state": "FL",
    "reportDate": "20161102",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - select product type, add keywords, and set your filters
3. Run It - click "Start" and get structured recall data in seconds

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🏭 Compliance teams - monitor recalls daily to ensure your products and suppliers are not affected
• 📊 Supply chain managers - track recalls across your supplier network and distribution channels
• 🔬 Food safety researchers - analyze contamination patterns, recall trends, and enforcement actions
• 💊 Pharmaceutical companies - monitor drug recalls and enforcement actions across the industry
• 🏥 Healthcare organizations - track medical device recalls that may affect patient safety
• 📰 Journalists - investigate recall patterns, repeat offenders, and safety trends

❓ FAQ

⚠️ What do the classification levels mean? Class I means there is a reasonable probability of serious health consequences or death. Class II means the product may cause temporary or medically reversible health problems. Class III means the product is unlikely to cause adverse health consequences.

📊 How many recalls are available? The database contains 84,000+ recall records across food (28K+), drugs (17K+), and medical devices (38K+).

🔍 Can I search for specific products? Yes. Use the Search Query field to find recalls for specific products, ingredients, or issues (e.g., 'listeria', 'infant formula', 'hip implant').

⏱️ How fast is it? Very fast. 100 recalls in about 1 second. The data comes directly from the official openFDA API.

🔗 Integrate FDA Recalls Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate recall monitoring
• Zapier - Get alerts for new recalls
• Slack - Notify your team instantly
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

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🆘 Need Help?

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It accesses only publicly available data through the official openFDA API.