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fda-approvals-mcp

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fda-approvals-mcp — SCAFFOLD

Drug approvals, device clearances (510(k)), recalls, adverse events. Wraps the openFDA free API. Sister product to sec-edgar-mcp — same patterns, biotech audience instead of finance.

Status: scaffolded. Idea #4 in ../../../ai-as-customer-ideas.md.

Planned tools

Tool	openFDA endpoint	Notes
`fda_drug_approval_search(date_range, sponsor?, indication?)`	`/drug/drugsfda.json`	New drug approvals (NDA/BLA).
`fda_drug_label(drug_name)`	`/drug/label.json`	Full drug label text.
`fda_recall_search(class?, date_range)`	`/drug/enforcement.json`, `/device/enforcement.json`	Class I/II/III recall events.
`fda_adverse_events(drug_name, date_range)`	`/drug/event.json`	FAERS adverse event reports — count + breakdown.
`fda_510k_search(date_range, sponsor?)`	`/device/510k.json`	Premium tier: device 510(k) clearances.
`fda_drug_shortages()`	drug shortage list	Premium.

Related MCP server: Unofficial FDA MCP Server

Audience

Clinical-LLM teams (Hippocratic, Glass, OpenEvidence, AmazeVet, Scribeberry).
Pharma research analysts.
Biotech / pharma investor agents (cross-sells with sec-edgar-mcp).
Journalists covering pharma.

Pricing (proposed)

Same tier shape as SEC EDGAR. Slightly higher willingness-to-pay in pharma → bias toward Team/Pro upsells.

Open / closed split

Open: MCP shim, openFDA wrapper (it's literally a public API; no moat).
Closed: alerts/subscriptions, drug-name normalization (RxNorm cross-ref), de-duplication of FAERS reports (multiple reporters per event), enriched label parsing.

Build steps

Same as SEC EDGAR. openFDA is even cleaner than EDGAR — JSON-RPC-compatible payloads, no User-Agent gymnastics, generous rate limits.

Sister MCPs

All from the same operator, all live on <product>.prakhar-cognizance.workers.dev, all free-tier friendly:

Group	Products
Research	sec-edgar · arxiv · world-bank-economic · uspto-patents · fda-approvals
Verification + Utility	verification ⭐ · unit-converter
India	indic-normalize · indian-regulatory
Real-time	hn-trending · wikipedia-recent-changes · gdelt-events · crypto-prices
Healthcare	drug-interaction
Logistics	multi-carrier-tracking

Full catalog: https://github.com/guptaprakhariitr · ⭐ = empty-quadrant / highest-conviction pick.

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