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FDA Recalls API: Drug Recalls, Device and Food Recalls

How it works

Track FDA drug recalls, medical device recalls and food recalls from the free openFDA enforcement API: recall number, product, recalling firm, class I/II/III, status, reason, dates, distribution and a severity score. No login, no proxy.

Input options

Field	Name	Required	What it does
`categories`	Product categories	no	Which FDA enforcement reports to read: drug, device (medical devices) and food. Leave empty to read all three.
`daysBack`	Report window (days)	no	Keep recalls whose FDA report date falls in the last N days.
`classifications`	FDA classes	no	Optional. Class I is the most serious (reasonable chance of serious harm or death), class III the least. Leave empty for all classes.
`ongoingOnly`	Ongoing recalls only	no	Turn on to hide recalls the FDA already marks as completed or terminated.
`minSeverityScore`	Minimum severity score	no	Optional 0 to 100. Keep only rows at or above this score. 80 or more is roughly class I.
`keyword`	Keyword filter	no	Optional phrase that must appear in the reason or product description, for example "listeria" or "undeclared milk".
`maxItems`	Max rows	no	Stop after this many rows, newest report date first. You pay only for rows delivered.

Output fields

One row per result. These are the 21 fields declared in the actor's dataset schema (field list from the schema, not a sample run).

Field	Type	Meaning
`recallNumber`	string
`productType`	string
`productDescription`	string
`recallingFirm`	string
`city`	string
`state`	string
`country`	string
`classification`	string
`status`	string
`reasonForRecall`	string
`reportDate`	string
`recallInitiationDate`	string
`classificationDate`	string
`daysSinceReport`	integer
`distributionPattern`	string
`productQuantity`	string
`voluntaryMandated`	string
`severityScore`	integer
`eventId`	string
`recordUrl`	string
`scrapedAt`	string

Limits, stated plainly

Public data only, no login. Fields a source does not publish come back empty rather than guessed. Coverage and freshness follow the underlying public source.

Price

Pay on Apify, no subscription: $0.00093 per recall row (pay per event). The live price is on the actor page.

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