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openFDA Food Recall & Enforcement Scraper (USA)

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Scrape FDA food recall and enforcement actions from the official openFDA API. Extract recall number, hazard class, product description, reason, recalling firm, city, state and dates across the United States. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

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openFDA Food Recall & Enforcement Scraper (USA)

Extract FDA food recall and enforcement actions from the official openFDA API, covering thousands of US food safety recalls

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

23 fields
per record

United States
coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel
output formats

What you get

Each record is one food recall or enforcement action from the openFDA food enforcement database, flattened into clean columns.

recallNumber: FDA recall number
status: recall status (ongoing, completed, terminated, pending)
classification: hazard class (Class I, II or III)
productType: product type (Food)
productDescription: full product description
reasonForRecall: why the product was recalled
recallingFirm: the firm conducting the recall
city: firm city
state: firm state
country: firm country
postalCode: firm postal code
addressLine1: firm street address
addressLine2: firm secondary address line when present
distributionPattern: where the product was distributed
productQuantity: quantity in commerce
codeInfo: lot numbers, best by dates and other identifying codes
voluntaryMandated: whether the recall was voluntary or mandated
initialFirmNotification: how the firm first notified customers
recallInitiationDate: date the recall was initiated
centerClassificationDate: date the FDA classified the recall
reportDate: date the recall was reported by the FDA
terminationDate: date the recall was terminated when applicable
eventId: FDA recall event identifier
observedAt: when this record was collected by the scraper

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Food safety and recall monitoring	Food safety and QA teams
Tracking recalls by firm, state or contaminant	Compliance and supplier risk teams
Building food recall datasets for research	Public health and data science teams
Allergen and pathogen recall alerting	Retail and grocery operations teams
Feeding recall data into internal dashboards	Data engineers

Frequently Asked Questions

What data does this scraper cover?
It covers the openFDA food enforcement database for the United States, which holds food recall and enforcement actions including the product, reason, classification, recalling firm, distribution and status.

How many records can I pull in one run?
openFDA paginates with a skip offset up to 25000 records per query. For larger pulls, narrow the filters or the date range so each run stays under that ceiling.

How do I find serious recalls only?
Set Classification to Class I, which marks recalls with a reasonable probability of serious health consequences or death. You can combine it with a keyword such as listeria or salmonella and a state filter.

How does the search work?
A simple keyword is matched to the recall reason, for example listeria, salmonella or undeclared allergen. You can also paste a raw openFDA expression with a field, such as product_description:cheese or recalling_firm:Tyson.

What happens to missing fields?
Fields that openFDA does not provide for a record, such as a termination date on an ongoing recall, are returned as null. The scraper never invents values.

Example use cases

Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:

openFDA Dietary Supplement Recalls: Scrape FDA dietary supplement recalls. Extract recalling firm, product description, hazard classification, recall status, state, and report dates.
openFDA E. coli Food Recalls: Scrape FDA food recalls caused by E. coli contamination. Get recalling firm, product description, classification, status, state, and report dates.
openFDA Foreign Material Food Recalls: Scrape FDA food recalls caused by foreign material contamination such as metal or plastic. Get firm, product, classification, status, and dates.
openFDA Ice Cream Recalls: Scrape FDA ice cream and frozen dessert recalls. Extract recalling firm, product description, hazard classification, status, state, and report dates.
openFDA Infant Formula Recalls: Scrape FDA infant formula recalls. Get recalling firm, product description, hazard classification, recall status, state, and FDA report dates.
openFDA Undeclared Milk Allergen Recalls: Scrape FDA food recalls for undeclared milk allergens. Extract recalling firm, product, hazard classification, status, state, and FDA report dates.
openFDA Undeclared Peanut Allergen Recalls: Scrape FDA food recalls for undeclared peanut allergens. Get recalling firm, product description, classification, status, state, and report dates.
Find Class I Allergen Food Recalls: Find Class I Allergen Food Recalls
Track Listeria Food Recalls: Track Listeria Food Recalls
Monitor Salmonella Food Recalls: Monitor Salmonella Food Recalls

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

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