FDA Debarment Screening — Current Drug & Food Lists

Screen person and firm names against FDA's current consolidated debarment workbook.

The Actor checks all three current FDA lists:

• Drug Product Applications
• Drug Imports
• Food Imports

It uses exact normalized name matching only. There is no fuzzy risk score, no identity guess, and no automated adverse-decision recommendation.

Independent tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Why use it

FDA debarment rules can matter in drug-application and import workflows. This Actor turns the current FDA workbook into a simple structured screening step suitable for:

• drug-application vendor/service-provider checks
• import compliance research
• legal/compliance research
• due-diligence workflows
• repeatable audit pipelines

Try it

{
  "names": [
    "Gina Acosta",
    "Quality Poultry and Seafood Inc.",
    "Piven No Exact Match 987654"
  ],
  "onlyMatches": false
}

The production gate rechecks known current FDA fixtures before release.

Output

Each returned screening row contains:

• submitted name
• normalized comparison key
• match or no-exact-match
• exact match count
• matching FDA list(s)
• person vs. firm
• FDA source name
• effective date
• debarment term
• Federal Register date/reference
• attached correction/continuation notices when present
• source URL
• workbook freshness metadata
• capture timestamp

FDA correction/continuation rows are attached to the related debarment record rather than incorrectly represented as separate people or firms.

Matching rules

V1 intentionally uses exact normalized matching.

Normalization handles case, punctuation, whitespace, accents, and person-name order such as:

• Gina Acosta
• Acosta, Gina

It does not perform fuzzy matching or assume that similar names identify the same person.

A returned match is a name match, not identity confirmation.

A no-exact-match result means only that no exact normalized match was found in the current workbook. It is not clearance, proof that a person/entity is not debarred, legal advice, or a substitute for reviewing the official record.

Matches-only mode

Set onlyMatches: true to omit unmatched screening rows.

If none of the submitted names match, the Actor writes one truthful non-billed summary row.

Pricing

Private candidate pricing: $0.005 per returned screening-result row ($5 per 1,000).

The price is subject to the live economics gate and final Store market recheck before publication.

Only returned screening-result rows are billed. Summary rows are not billed.

Official source

FDA Debarment List Updates:

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/fda-debarment-list-drug-product-applications/fda-debarment-list-updates

Current consolidated workbook:

https://www.fda.gov/media/147870/download?attachment=

The workbook currently contains separate sheets for Drug Applications, Drug Imports, and Food Imports.

Important limitations

This tool is a factual FDA-list screening aid. It must not be used as an automated employment, credit, housing, insurance, or other high-impact eligibility decision system.

Before acting on a match, verify identity and review the official FDA and Federal Register records. Names can be shared by multiple people or organizations, and source records can change.

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