Government

FDA drug recalls & labels (openFDA) API

Look up FDA drug recalls (enforcement reports) or a drug's label info (indications, dosage, warnings, side effects) by name — from the free openFDA API. Answers 'has this drug been recalled', 'side effects of X', 'why was this recalled'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/gov/fda

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

govfdadrugrecallhealthmedicationopenfda

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/gov/fda

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "op": "label",
  "query": "tylenol"
}

Example response

{
  "op": "label",
  "query": "tylenol",
  "brandName": "Tylenol",
  "genericName": "acetaminophen",
  "indications": "For the temporary relief of minor aches and pains…"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "op",
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "op": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "recall",
        "label"
      ]
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "tylenol"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 5
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}