fda-database

Query FDA adverse events data programmatically using the FDAQuery client to search drug safety records, retrieve labeling information, and monitor adverse event trends. The Skill provides API key handling, rate limiting, and pagination to access openFDA endpoints for drugs, devices, and foods across pharmacovigilance workflows.

OpenFDA endpoints provide access to adverse events, drug labeling, enforcement actions, 510(k) submissions, PMA approvals, NDC drug codes, device classifications, and food recall data. This enables cross-domain analyses for safety signals, regulatory trends, and compliance monitoring.

The FDAQuery client implements built-in API key handling, rate limiting, caching, error handling, and retry logic to manage production-scale requests. Configure your API key and the Skill automatically handles rate constraints and response caching to optimize repeated queries.

Yes. Query multiple FDA data domains—drugs, devices, foods, adverse events, recalls, and regulatory submissions—within a single workflow. The FDAQuery client supports unified search, limit, skip, count, and sort parameters across all endpoint types.

Register for an openFDA API key (free, no key required for basic queries) and install the requests dependency. The Skill handles authentication, pagination, and error recovery automatically, so you can start querying FDA endpoints immediately after setup.

OpenFDA data is updated periodically and subject to rate limits. For production pharmacovigilance workflows, monitor rate-limit headers, implement caching strategies, and batch queries. Real-time alerts require supplementary event-stream monitoring beyond the openFDA API.