fda_drug_approvals
ActiveTool of mcp-openfda
Find FDA-approved drugs by brand name, active ingredient, or application number. To find generic versions of a drug, search by active ingredient using products.active_ingredients.name (NOT openfda.generic_name — that field only works in the label endpoint). IMPORTANT: drug names in the FDA database are stored in UPPERCASE — always pass ingredient and brand names in uppercase (e.g. "APIXABAN" not "apixaban") or you will get 0 results. Returns approval status, sponsor, application number (ANDA = generic, NDA = brand), and application details. There is NO queryable "application_type" field — never add application_type:"ANDA" (it returns 0 results). To limit to generics, search by active ingredient and read the ANDA/NDA prefix on application_number in the results.
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"examples": [
{
"query": "openfda.brand_name:\"KEYTRUDA\""
},
{
"limit": 20,
"query": "products.active_ingredients.name:\"pembrolizumab\""
}
],
"required": [
"query"
],
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Number of results (1-100, default 10)"
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "OpenFDA drugsfda search query. Drug names MUST be UPPERCASE in quotes. To find all generics for a drug: 'products.active_ingredients.name:\"APIXABAN\"' (returns all ANDA + NDA approvals). By brand: 'openfda.brand_name:\"KEYTRUDA\"'. By original submission: 'submissions.submission_type:\"ORIG\"'. Do NOT use application_type (no such field — returns 0); ANDA vs NDA is read from the application_number prefix in the results, not filtered in the query. NOTE: use products.active_ingredients.name (not openfda.generic_name which is a label-API field and returns 0 here)."
}
}
}Parent server
mcp-openfda
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-openfda
2/7 registries