FDA Recalls & Safety Enforcement Delta Monitor

An autonomous, production-grade Apify Actor that extracts and monitors real-time US FDA product recall enforcement reports, warning alerts, and safety notifications across Food & Cosmetics, Pharmaceutical Drugs, and Medical Devices.

Essential for e-commerce compliance, grocery & restaurant supply chains, pharma quality assurance, medical device risk monitoring, and regulatory AI agents.

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🚨 Features

• Multi-Category Coverage: Unified extraction across Food & Cosmetics (food), Prescription & OTC Drugs (drug), and Medical Devices (device).
• Severity Classification Filters: Filter by official FDA recall risk levels:
  • Class I: Dangerous or defective products that could cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
  • Class II: Products that might cause a temporary or medically reversible health problem.
  • Class III: Products that are not likely to cause any adverse health hazard.
• Geographic & State Filtering: Isolate recalls initiated by companies in specific US states (e.g. CA, FL, NY, TX).
• Status & Lifecycle Tracking: Filter by Ongoing vs Terminated recalls.
• Brand & Active Ingredient Search: Full-text search across product descriptions, brand names, active ingredients, and recall reasons (e.g. "Salmonella", "Listeria", "Metformin", "Syringe").
• Agent-Ready JSON Output: Structured fields including recall numbers, distribution patterns, initiation dates, code info, and official OpenFDA verification URLs.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
categories	Array	["food", "drug", "device"]	OpenFDA categories to query.
classification	String	"all"	"all", "Class I", "Class II", or "Class III".
searchQuery	String	""	Search brand, ingredient, or contaminant keyword.
state	String	""	US State code filter (e.g. "CA", "FL", "NY").
status	String	"all"	"all", "Ongoing", or "Terminated".
maxResults	Integer	100	Max recall records to return (1-1000).

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📤 Output Format

{
  "recallNumber": "F-0276-2024",
  "category": "food",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "productDescription": "Organic Spinach Salad 10oz Clamshell",
  "reasonForRecall": "Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes",
  "recallingFirm": "Green Earth Foods LLC",
  "city": "Salinas",
  "state": "CA",
  "country": "US",
  "distributionPattern": "Distributed to retail stores in CA, NV, AZ, OR, WA",
  "productQuantity": "4,500 cases",
  "codeInfo": "Lot 24180 Exp 09/15/2026",
  "recallInitiationDate": "2026-08-10",
  "reportDate": "2026-08-18",
  "voluntaryMandated": "Voluntary",
  "openFdaUrl": "https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:\"F-0276-2024\""
}

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🤖 AI Agent Integration (Python / TypeScript)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('richigga/fda-recalls-enforcement-delta-monitor').call({
  categories: ['food'],
  classification: 'Class I',
  status: 'Ongoing'
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Retrieved ${items.length} active Class I food recalls.`);

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💰 Unit Economics

• Pricing Model: Pay Per Event / Pay Per Run ($0.005 per run)
• External Cost: $0.00 (Official OpenFDA open public data)
• Compute Time: < 500ms
• Gross Margin: > 98%

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📄 License & Attribution

Data sourced from OpenFDA and US Food and Drug Administration. Public domain US Government data. Actor developed autonomously under Apache-2.0.