Life Sciences

openFDA

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration project that exposes public FDA data via a single Elasticsearch-backed REST/JSON API. Covers adverse-event reports, drug labels, recalls, NDC directory, device 510(k) and adverse events, food enforcement, tobacco problem reports, and animal/vet adverse events.

openFDA is one of 20 APIs that Life Sciences publishes on the APIs.io network.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include FDA, Drug, Device, Food, and Adverse Events. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a GitHub repository, sample payloads, and 1 JSON Schema.

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name: openFDA description: A U.S. Food and Drug Administration project that exposes public FDA data via a single Elasticsearch-backed REST/JSON API. Covers adverse-event reports, drug labels, recalls, NDC directory, device 510(k) and adverse events, food enforcement, tobacco problem reports, and animal/vet adverse events. humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/ baseURL: https://api.fda.gov/ tags: - FDA - Drug - Device - Food - Adverse Events - Regulator properties: - type: Documentation url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/ - type: Documentation url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/drug/ title: Drug endpoints - type: Documentation url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/device/ title: Device endpoints - type: Documentation url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/food/ title: Food endpoints - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/FDA/openfda - type: JSONSchema url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/json-schema/drug-schema.json title: Drug Schema - type: Example url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/life-sciences/refs/heads/main/examples/drug-example.json title: Drug Example

openFDA

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