# FDA Customs-Broker Filer Evaluation Lookup — Official Outcomes (`quartz_apple_dnx/fda-filer-evaluation-lookup`) Actor

Search FDA's current public filer-evaluation workbook by filer code, broker name, state, outcome, or evaluation date. Returns official outcome text and provenance.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/quartz_apple_dnx/fda-filer-evaluation-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Piven Core](https://apify.com/quartz_apple_dnx) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Developer tools
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## Pricing

$0.25 / 1,000 fda filer evaluation rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## FDA Customs-Broker Filer Evaluation Lookup — Official Outcomes

Search FDA's current public **Filer Evaluation Outcomes** and export structured customs-broker / entry-filer records.

Use it for **broker verification, importer/vendor due diligence, customs operations, VQIP research, compliance-data workflows, and automated FDA filer lookups**.

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

### Common use cases

- Look up an exact FDA filer code
- Search customs brokers / entry filers by company name
- Filter the current FDA list by state or evaluation outcome
- Find NAI, VAI, OAI CAP, Paperless, Inactive, corrective-action, or new-filer records
- Build a structured current filer-evaluation dataset for internal research or workflow automation

### What you get

Each billable row represents one record in FDA's current Filer Evaluation Outcomes workbook and can include:

- evaluation date
- filer code
- filer / broker name
- FDA-published address
- derived U.S. state when the address contains a standard state + ZIP
- FDA-published evaluation outcome
- normalized outcome category for convenient filtering
- workbook report timestamp
- exact applied search
- source URL and capture timestamp

### Try it

```json
{
  "filerCode": "92K",
  "maxRows": 25
}
```

The current FDA workbook resolves that fixture to **24/7 Customs Inc**. The production gate rechecks the live source before release.

### Input

Filter by:

- exact filer code
- filer / broker name contains
- 2-letter U.S. state
- evaluation-outcome contains
- evaluation-date range
- maximum saved rows, 1–1,000

Leave search fields blank to browse the current FDA filer list.

### Pricing

Only successfully saved FDA filer evaluation rows are billed. Legitimate zero-result and budget-limit summary rows are non-billed. Source/download failures remain failures.

Private candidate target: **$0.25 per 1,000 filer rows**, subject to the live economics benchmark and final Store market recheck.

Public release is a separate decision.

### Source / provenance

FDA source page:

`https://www.fda.gov/industry/actions-enforcement/filer-evaluations`

Current FDA workbook:

`https://www.fda.gov/media/119883/download?attachment=`

FDA states that it publishes the most recent evaluation outcome for each customs broker / entry filer and updates the list monthly.

The current workbook exposes:

- Evaluation Date
- Filer Code
- Name
- Address
- Evaluation Outcome

### Important limitations

This Actor reports **FDA-published source facts**. It does not decide whether a broker is safe, approved, compliant, noncompliant, recommended, or suitable for a particular shipment or importer.

Do **not** infer a favorable or unfavorable compliance conclusion merely because a filer is absent from the workbook or from a filtered result. Review FDA's current filer-evaluation guidance and other applicable information before making operational or regulatory decisions.

The normalized `outcomeCategory` is a deterministic convenience label derived from FDA's published outcome text; the original `evaluationOutcome` field is preserved.

The FDA workbook can change format or content. The Actor fails closed if required source columns are missing rather than silently guessing.

### About Piven Core

Built and maintained by **Piven Core** — focused data APIs and automation utilities for reliable, production-ready workflows.

Learn more: https://pivencore.com

# Actor input Schema

## `filerCode` (type: `string`):

Optional exact FDA filer code. Store prefill uses 92K.

## `filerName` (type: `string`):

Optional case-insensitive contains search on the FDA-published filer name.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Optional 2-letter U.S. state filter derived from the FDA-published address, such as TX or FL.

## `outcome` (type: `string`):

Optional case-insensitive contains filter, such as NAI, VAI, OAI CAP 1, Paperless, or Inactive.

## `evaluationDateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional earliest evaluation date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `evaluationDateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional latest evaluation date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `maxRows` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on saved billable filer rows.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "filerCode": "92K",
  "maxRows": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "filerCode": "92K",
    "maxRows": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/fda-filer-evaluation-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "filerCode": "92K",
    "maxRows": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/fda-filer-evaluation-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "filerCode": "92K",
  "maxRows": 25
}' |
apify call quartz_apple_dnx/fda-filer-evaluation-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,quartz_apple_dnx/fda-filer-evaluation-lookup"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AH0EYn9VDV0dAkpIQ/builds/ZwAEYzM3BNhBUAZHD/openapi.json