You can access the openFDA Food Enforcement Snapshot programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "watchlistTerms": ["Deterministic fixture Vendor Name for Compliance Risk Tool"],
10    "taskIntent": "buyer-ready-product-run",
11    "sourceMode": "startUrls",
12    "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records",
13    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json" }],
14    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
15    "maxRequestRetries": 2,
16    "sinceLastRun": False,
17    "deltaMode": True,
18}
19
20# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
21run = client.actor("zentrafoundry/compliance-risk-tool").call(run_input=run_input)
22
23# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
24print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
25for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
26    print(item)
27
28# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

openFDA food enforcement — not a risk score API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use openFDA Food Enforcement Snapshot API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

openFDA Food Enforcement Snapshot API in JavaScript

openFDA Food Enforcement Snapshot API through CLI

openFDA Food Enforcement Snapshot OpenAPI definition

openFDA Food Enforcement Snapshot API

openFDA Food Enforcement Reports Scraper

neuton/openfda-food-enforcement-reports-scraper

Extract FDA food recall enforcement reports from openFDA for food safety monitoring, retail compliance, and supplier risk research.

Neuton Scripts

openFDA Device Enforcement Snapshot

zentrafoundry/marketplace-seller-risk-bundle

openFDA device/enforcement.json (firm + product). Not a marketplace seller-risk score. $0.01.

Zentra

FDA Food Recalls Scraper - openFDA Enforcement API

scrapers_lat/openfda-food-recalls-scraper

Scrape FDA food recalls and enforcement reports from the official openFDA API, no API key needed. Filter food recall data by hazard class, product, recalling firm, state, status and date range. Get recall reasons, distribution, firm contact address and dates. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Scrapers Lat

5.0

FDA Food Recall Monitor: Alerts by Firm & Class

thoob/fda-food-recall-feed

Clean, flat US food-recall and enforcement records from the official openFDA Food Enforcement API, filtered by product, firm, state, classification, and status, with a what-changed-since-last-run mode. Billed only per delivered record.

Pono Data

OpenFDA Recall and Enforcement Monitor

bakos_bence/openfda-recalls

Query the public openFDA enforcement API for food, drug, or device recalls with Lucene search filters. One row per recall with firm, product, status, classification, and distribution fields. Unofficial; not affiliated with the FDA.

Bakos Bence

FDA Food Recall Intelligence

skootle/fda-food-recall-intelligence

Official openFDA food enforcement data for recall monitoring, supplier risk, API integrations, schedules, and compliance workflows.

Skootle

openFDA API — Food Recall Records Export

tugelbay/openfda-recall-safety-monitor

Use the openFDA API to search food enforcement records and export recall numbers, classifications, status, dates, firms, reasons, products, and distribution as JSON or CSV.

Tugelbay Konabayev

FDA Food Recall Monitor

ryanclinton/fda-food-recall-monitor

FDA Food Recall Monitor searches and extracts food recall and enforcement data directly from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's openFDA API.

Ryan Clinton

FDA Recall Risk Records — openFDA Enforcement

nexgensignal/fda-recall-risk-records

FDA recall/enforcement records from openFDA (food, drug, device) — firm, product, classification, reason, distribution, status. openFDA unvalidated-results disclaimer carried. No API key. Pay per record. Part of NexGen Signal — official-source data products.

NexGen Signal

FDA Recall Monitor — Food, Drug & Device Enforcement Reports

eschalon/fda-recall-monitor

Track new FDA recall enforcement reports across food, drugs, and medical devices from the official openFDA API — classification, product, reason, firm, and distribution details.