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Food and Drug Administration

openFDA is an Elasticsearch-based public API that serves FDA data on drugs, devices, foods, animal/veterinary products, and tobacco. Each noun exposes one or more datasets including adverse events, recall enforcement reports, product labeling, classifications, registrations, and approvals.

Food and Drug Administration publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Animal & Veterinary API, Device API, Drug API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Drugs, Devices, Federal-Government, Food Safety, and Public Data.

The Food and Drug Administration catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Food and Drug Administration’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, GitHub presence, and 6 more developer resources.

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33.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
DrugsDevicesFederal-GovernmentFood SafetyPublic DataRecallsAdverse Events

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 33.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 10.4 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17
Access Clarity 4.5 / 17
Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 5.8 / 9
Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15
Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Food and Drug Administration Animal & Veterinary API

Adverse events involving animal and veterinary products.

Food and Drug Administration Device API

Device-related endpoints (adverse events, classifications, recalls, 510(k), PMA, UDI).

Food and Drug Administration Drug API

Drug-related endpoints (adverse events, labeling, recalls, NDC).

Food and Drug Administration Food API

Food-related endpoints (enforcement reports, adverse events).

Food and Drug Administration Other API

Cross-cutting datasets (NSDE, substance, harmonized).

Food and Drug Administration Tobacco API

Tobacco product problem reports.

Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Device API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Drug API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Food API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Other API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Tobacco API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Food And Drug Administration Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Food And Drug Administration Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Food And Drug Administration Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Food and Drug Administration API Rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Food And Drug Administration Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Food And Drug Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Food And Drug Administration Agentic Access

22 operations

22 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 Authentication
Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: food-and-drug-administration
name: Food and Drug Administration
description: openFDA is an Elasticsearch-based public API that serves FDA data on drugs, devices, foods, animal/veterinary
  products, and tobacco. Each noun exposes one or more datasets including adverse events, recall enforcement reports, product
  labeling, classifications, registrations, and approvals.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/food-and-drug-administration.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Drugs
- Devices
- Federal-Government
- Food Safety
- Public Data
- Recalls
- Adverse Events
tags_raw:
- Drugs
- Devices
- Federal Government
- Food Safety
- Public Data
- Recalls
- Adverse Events
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-animal-veterinary-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Animal & Veterinary API
  description: Adverse events involving animal and veterinary products.
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Animal & Veterinary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-animal-veterinary-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-device-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Device API
  description: Device-related endpoints (adverse events, classifications, recalls, 510(k), PMA, UDI).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Device
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-device-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-drug-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Drug API
  description: Drug-related endpoints (adverse events, labeling, recalls, NDC).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Drug
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-drug-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-food-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Food API
  description: Food-related endpoints (enforcement reports, adverse events).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Food
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-food-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-other-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Other API
  description: Cross-cutting datasets (NSDE, substance, harmonized).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Other
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-other-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-tobacco-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Tobacco API
  description: Tobacco product problem reports.
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Tobacco
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-tobacco-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/food-and-drug-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/food-and-drug-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/food-and-drug-administration-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fda
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fda.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
- type: Authentication
  url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/FDA/openfda
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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