FDA Safety Signal Monitor

A product recall and safety alert intelligence feed for teams that need source-backed risk signals before manual review catches up. Monitors openFDA APIs, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System overview, FDA AEMS Public Dashboard and returns buyer-ready records with source evidence.

Who this is for

Procurement, sales, partnerships, compliance, and research teams use this actor when they need a focused fda safety signal feed instead of a broad generic scraper.

Sources monitored

openFDA APIs, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System overview, FDA AEMS Public Dashboard

What you get

The actor returns buyer-ready records with source attribution, match context, and normalized fields for review or downstream routing.

• alert_id: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• product_name: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• brand: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• category: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• risk_level: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• hazard: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• remedy: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• country: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• published_at: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• source_url: Direct source URL for review and audit.
• image_url: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.
• matched_at: Timestamp or rule context showing when the signal was matched.
• match_reason: Plain-language reason this record matched the actor focus.
• dedupe_key: Normalized field for filtering, routing, or downstream review.

Pricing

This actor uses Apify pay-per-event pricing. Current public listing guidance: $29-$49 / 1,000 launch validation records until public data proof is complete. Charges are tied to buyer-visible value events such as recall-alert, recall-alert, recall-alert. Small validation runs are supported so you can inspect output before scaling a schedule.

• recall-alert: Charge when FDA Safety Signal Monitor produces record-saved. Typical price: $0.043. A run that produces 10 matching records charges only for the matched buyer-value events and remains capped by the run limit.
• recall-alert: Charge when FDA Safety Signal Monitor produces enriched-record. Typical price: $0.043. A run that produces 10 matching records charges only for the matched buyer-value events and remains capped by the run limit.
• recall-alert: Charge when FDA Safety Signal Monitor produces report-generated. Typical price: $0.043. A run that produces 10 matching records charges only for the matched buyer-value events and remains capped by the run limit.
• first-run-cap: Recommended first run budget cap. Typical price: $3.820. Start with the default small run, inspect the dataset, then raise maxItems or schedule recurring runs.

API example

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~fda-safety-signal-monitor/runs" \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"maxItems":10,"sourceIds":["OPENFDA-API","FDA-AEMS","FDA-AEMS-DASHBOARD"],"includeSourceUrls":true,"includeMatchReasons":true,"outputMode":"buyer-ready-records"}'

Recommended first run

{
    "maxItems": 10,
    "sourceIds": [
        "OPENFDA-API",
        "FDA-AEMS",
        "FDA-AEMS-DASHBOARD"
    ],
    "includeSourceUrls": true,
    "includeMatchReasons": true,
    "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records"
}

Sample output

Review a static sample output record before running the actor: https://zentraforge.store/external/actor-review/samples/fda-safety-signal-monitor.json

Recommended public task templates

[
    {
        "name": "First 10 qualified records",
        "description": "Low-cost validation run for checking output quality and source fit.",
        "input": {
            "maxItems": 10,
            "sourceIds": [
                "OPENFDA-API",
                "FDA-AEMS",
                "FDA-AEMS-DASHBOARD"
            ],
            "includeSourceUrls": true,
            "includeMatchReasons": true,
            "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records",
            "actorSlug": "fda-safety-signal-monitor"
        }
    },
    {
        "name": "Daily monitoring feed",
        "description": "Recurring small batch for new buyer-value records.",
        "schedule": "Daily during local business hours",
        "input": {
            "maxItems": 25,
            "sourceIds": [
                "OPENFDA-API",
                "FDA-AEMS",
                "FDA-AEMS-DASHBOARD"
            ],
            "includeSourceUrls": true,
            "includeMatchReasons": true,
            "outputMode": "buyer-ready-records",
            "actorSlug": "fda-safety-signal-monitor"
        }
    }
]

Use cases

• Track new fda safety signal opportunities without checking each source manually.
• Route qualified records into CRM, spreadsheets, or internal review queues.
• Monitor deadlines, buyer names, source links, and match reasons for faster triage.
• Schedule recurring runs to catch new signals while keeping first-run costs low.

Trust and compliance

• Uses openFDA APIs, FDA Adverse Event Monitoring System overview, FDA AEMS Public Dashboard.
• Designed for public-source procurement and data-intelligence workflows.
• Keeps source URLs and source identifiers in output records for auditability.
• Does not require private credentials unless a source is explicitly configured for approved authenticated access.