# FDA Recalls — Clean JSON (food, drug, device) (`sonnitech/openfda-recalls`) Actor

Get clean, latest FDA product recalls from openFDA: food, drug and device. Filter by keyword or state. Returns firm, product, reason, classification, dates and status. Free official source, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sonnitech/openfda-recalls.md
- **Developed by:** [SonniTech Solutions](https://apify.com/sonnitech) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## FDA Recalls — Clean JSON (food, drug, device)

Get the **latest FDA product recalls** as clean, structured rows. Search food,
drug or device recalls by keyword or state and receive firm, product, reason,
classification (Class I/II/III), dates and status — ready to use.

### Why this exists

The FDA publishes every recall through the openFDA API, free and without a key,
but the raw format is verbose and dates are `YYYYMMDD` strings. This actor
normalizes it into flat, latest-first rows you can act on immediately.

### Input

```json
{
  "category": "food",
  "searchTerm": "salmonella",
  "state": "CA",
  "limit": 20
}
```

- `category` — `food`, `drug`, or `device`.
- `searchTerm` — matches product, reason or firm (brand, contaminant, etc.).
- `state` — optional recalling-firm state (CA, MI, TX…).
- `limit` — 1–100, newest first.

### Output (one item per recall)

```json
{
  "firm": "Green Jeeva LLC",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "product": "Organic Moringa Powder; 15kg/bag ...",
  "reason": "Moringa Powder ingredient positive for salmonella",
  "state": "CA",
  "initiationDate": "2026-07-08"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Retail & grocery** — pull products off shelves the day a recall hits.
- **Supply-chain & compliance** monitoring by brand, contaminant or region.
- Feed recall alerts into a dashboard or AI pipeline.

### Notes

- Source: `api.fda.gov` (openFDA — official, free, no key).
- Class I = most serious. Data is as-published by the FDA.

***

*Keywords: FDA recalls API, food recall data, drug recall JSON, openFDA,
product recall alerts, safety compliance data.*

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Which recall dataset to search.

## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):

Optional. Matches product, reason or firm (e.g. 'salmonella', 'peanut', a brand).

## `state` (type: `string`):

Optional. Filter by recalling firm state, e.g. CA, MI, TX.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

How many recalls to return (1-100), newest first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "food",
  "limit": 20
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sonnitech/openfda-recalls").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sonnitech/openfda-recalls").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call sonnitech/openfda-recalls --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sonnitech/openfda-recalls"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/lfJa7xB2rmvmM0K0c/builds/TnkdOu1IrgBgbXUV0/openapi.json