FDA Recalls Scraper — Drug, Device & Food

Track FDA recalls across drugs, medical devices and food in one actor — all three share one comparable schema. Built on the official openFDA enforcement API. Filter by date, recall class or firm. No key, no proxies, no anti-bot.

Perfect for compliance monitoring, supply-chain risk, recall-alert products, and regulatory research.

What you get

One row per recall, identical fields across all three categories:

• Classification — category (drug/device/food), classification (Class I–III), status, voluntaryMandated
• Firm & product — recallingFirm, productType, productDescription, productQuantity, distributionPattern
• Reason — reasonForRecall
• Dates — recallInitiationDate, reportDate, terminationDate (normalized to YYYY-MM-DD)
• Location — city, state, country
• IDs — recallNumber, eventId

Who it's for

• Compliance & regulatory teams — monitor recalls affecting your products or suppliers.
• Healthcare, pharma & food companies — competitive and supply-chain risk monitoring.
• Journalists & researchers — track recall trends and serious (Class I) events.
• Alerting products — feed a recall-watch service.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
categories	array	all three	Any of drug, device, food
dateFrom / dateTo	string	—	Recall report-date range (YYYY-MM-DD)
classification	string	—	Class I (most serious), Class II, or Class III
search	string	—	Advanced: raw openFDA query (overrides the filters above)
maxResultsPerCategory	integer	500	Cap per category

Example input

{
  "categories": ["drug", "food"],
  "classification": "Class I",
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxResultsPerCategory": 500
}

Field-level query via openFDA syntax:

{ "search": "recalling_firm:\"Pfizer\"+AND+classification:\"Class+I\"" }

Example output (one recall)

{
  "category": "drug",
  "recallNumber": "D-1234-2026",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "recallingFirm": "Haleon US Holdings LLC",
  "productType": "Drugs",
  "productDescription": "Pain relief tablets, 200 count bottles",
  "reasonForRecall": "Chemical Contamination: trace nitrosamine above the acceptable intake limit",
  "productQuantity": "12,480 bottles",
  "distributionPattern": "Nationwide (US)",
  "voluntaryMandated": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
  "recallInitiationDate": "2026-06-01",
  "reportDate": "2026-06-17",
  "terminationDate": null,
  "city": "Warren",
  "state": "NJ",
  "country": "United States",
  "eventId": "90210"
}

Why this actor

• Drug + device + food in one comparable schema — a nicer product than single-category clones.
• Class filtering — isolate the most serious Class I events for alerting.
• openFDA power query — drop into raw search for exact field-level filters.
• Keyless, official, reliable — free public API, auto-paginated.

Notes

• Data is the openFDA enforcement API — free, public, no key or anti-bot.
• For field-level queries use search (openFDA syntax), e.g. recalling_firm:"Pfizer"+AND+classification:"Class+I".
• Public data; you are responsible for compliant use of the output. Not affiliated with the FDA.

Pricing

Pay per result — $4.00 per 1,000 results (one result = one recall). No subscription or platform fees.

Related actors

• ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper — trial records and status.
• SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper — company filings for the firms behind recalls.
• Federal Register Scraper — US rules, proposed rules and agency notices.