# Food and Drug Administration

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/food-and-drug-administration/  
**Website:** https://www.fda.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 32.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 50.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 29.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Food And Drug Administration Agentic Access** — 22 operations

## Security (2)

- **Food And Drug Administration Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Food And Drug Administration Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Food And Drug Administration Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Drugs, Devices, Federal-Government, Food Safety, Public Data, Recalls, Adverse Events

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/food-and-drug-administration/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.