OpenFDA is a project indexing and formatting
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a List of United States federal agencies, federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is respo ...
(FDA) data, and making such data accessible to the public. The ultimate goal of enabling data accessibility is to educate people and to save lives.
The currently provided API for accessing data is under a beta version. The project is open source, and the code is available from
GitHub
GitHub () is a Proprietary software, proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug trackin ...
.
On March 31, 2025, the OpenFDA website was displaying "there is a temporary suspension of updates to the openFDA datasets".
[https://open.fda.gov/about/status/]
References
External links
The official website of OpenFDAThe code on GitHub
Open data
Free culture movement
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