FDA Supplier Watch - Warning Letters & Import Alerts by Company

Give company names; get their FDA warning letters and import-alert (Red List) listings, then only the new ones on every later run. For pharma, device and food quality and supplier-qualification teams who need to know when a supplier gets in trouble with the FDA.

It uses the FDA's public warning letters database and the public import alert pages. Each company row also links to openFDA recall data.

Quick start - three copy-paste inputs

Demo (empty input works):

{}

Your supplier list, scheduled weekly:

{
  "companies": ["Teva", "Hikma", "Sun Pharmaceutical", "Aurobindo"],
  "importAlerts": ["66-40", "66-41", "66-79", "99-34"],
  "stateStoreName": "acme-supplier-watch",
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX/YYY/ZZZ"
}

Food and supplement suppliers, warning letters plus food import alerts:

{ "companies": ["Nature's Bounty", "Herbalife"], "importAlerts": ["54-14", "99-32", "99-35", "99-23"], "historyMonths": 36 }

Input guide

Field	Meaning
companies	Names to watch. All words of a name must appear in the FDA company name; Inc, LLC, Ltd, Corp... are ignored; "dba" names are matched on both sides.
sources	warning-letters and/or import-alerts.
importAlerts	Import alert numbers to search (66-40 drug GMP, 66-41, 66-79, 99-34, 99-32, 99-35, 54-14 ...). ALL searches every alert (150+ large pages, slow).
historyMonths	For a company checked for the first time, existing items posted in this window are reported (flagged isBaseline); older ones are only counted.
stateStoreName	Memory store, same name every run.
webhookUrl	Optional POST of new actions.

Output

company-check (one per company): counts of letters and listings, newThisRun, matchedNames, and recallSearchUrls (openFDA drug, device and food enforcement searches for that firm: open them for recall data).

new-action (one per new item):

Field	Meaning
action	warning-letter or import-alert
matchedName, matchScore	The FDA name that matched, and a 0-1 similarity (1 = same words)
issuingOffice, subject, letterIssueDate, postedDate	Warning letter facts
alertNumber, subject, country, address, postedDate	Import alert facts (date the firm was listed)
url	FDA page
isBaseline	true for history reported on a company's first check

Sample row:

{"type":"new-action","company":"Babikian Healthcare Products","action":"import-alert","matchedName":"BABIKIAN HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS","matchScore":1,"alertNumber":"66-40","postedDate":"2026-06-22","country":"ARMENIA","url":"https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_189.html"}

Use it with

• Run openFDA recall searches from recallSearchUrls, or pair it with a recall monitor for the products you buy.
• Webhook to Slack or Teams so QA hears about a new letter the day it is posted.

FAQ

Is a match proof it is the same company? No. Matching is by name only. Check the matchedName, address and country before acting.

Does it cover Form 483s, inspections or recalls? No. Warning letters and import alerts only; recalls are linked, not copied.

How new is "new"? The FDA posts warning letters on Tuesdays; import alert pages are updated as firms are added.

Honest limits

• Only the import alerts you list are searched (the default list covers the main drug and device ones).
• Names that are too short or generic (a single word under 4 letters) never match.
• If an FDA page cannot be read, that source is skipped for the run and an error row says so; nothing is marked as seen for it.

Price

$0.002 per company checked, $0.01 per new FDA action found. Watching 50 suppliers weekly with 2 new items costs about $0.12 per run.