openFDA Drug, Device & Biologics Recall Scraper (USA)

Get FDA drug, medical device and biologics recalls and enforcement reports as clean, structured data — the same official source used by compliance, pharma safety, medical-device quality, and product-liability legal teams. Filter by hazard class, status, firm, state, product, and date, then export to JSON, CSV, or Excel.

This is the drug/device/biologics companion to our FDA Food Recall scraper — same authoritative FDA data, the categories that matter to healthcare and life-sciences.

What you get

Each record includes:

• Recall number and FDA event ID (groups related product recalls)
• Hazard classification — Class I (most serious), II, III — plus a numeric classificationLevel
• Status — ongoing, completed, terminated, pending, or open
• Product type — Drugs, Medical Devices, Biologics
• Product description, reason for recall, and quantity
• Recalling firm with full address, city, state, ZIP, country, and a ready-to-use single-line firmAddress
• Distribution pattern, plus derived distributionNationwide flag and parsed distributionStates
• Key dates — recall initiation, center classification, FDA report/posted, termination — normalized to YYYY-MM-DD
• Voluntary vs FDA-mandated and initial firm notification method
• Code / lot info
• Device recall database extras (optional): FDA product code, 510(k) numbers, root-cause description, firm action, FEI number, and contact
• Risk score (0–100) — a composite hazard signal combining severity, recency, and distribution scope
• openFDA enrichment block (brand/generic names, manufacturer, NDC, device identifiers when available) and recallAgeDays

Filters

• Product type — All (drug + device), Drugs, Medical Devices, or Biologics
• Detailed device recall database — switch on for product codes, 510(k) numbers, and root cause
• Classification — Class I / II / III
• Status — ongoing / completed / terminated / pending / open
• Recalling firm — e.g. Pfizer, Medtronic, Baxter
• State and city of the firm, and country
• Product keyword — e.g. insulin, catheter, vaccine, syringe
• Device product code — for the device recall database
• Voluntary or FDA-mandated
• Date range on your choice of date field, with newest/oldest sorting
• Recall number or Event ID exact lookup
• Free-text or raw openFDA search expressions

Example input

{
  "maxRecalls": 100,
  "productType": "Devices",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "sortOrder": "Newest first"
}

Output

One row per recall, available as JSON, CSV, or Excel. A ready-made table view highlights recall number, class, product, reason, firm, state, date, and risk score.

Notes

• Data comes from the U.S. FDA's official openFDA program and covers U.S.-regulated products.
• Biologics recalls are served from the FDA drug enforcement dataset (openFDA does not publish a separate biologics recall feed); coverage there is limited compared with drugs and devices.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 records per run.