{"slug":"fda","domain":"research","title":"FDA: who registered a device facility","summary":"Device establishment registrations — who registered a facility and what is listed in it, months before a product ships.","help":"fda: device establishment registrations, as JSON.\n\nRETURNS\n  One JSON object on stdout.\n\nPRE-SHIPMENT, WHICH IS THE POINT\n  A company must register a facility and list what it makes there before it can\n  sell a device in the United States. The registration comes months before the\n  product, which is a better moment to reach them than the week it launches.\n\nWHAT THE LISTING TELLS YOU\n  The device, its product code, and the establishment's role — manufacturer,\n  contract sterilizer, repackager. That last one is how you tell a company that\n  MAKES something from one that relabels it.\n\nWHAT IT IS NOT\n  An empty answer means no device establishment on record. It says nothing\n  about a drug, a supplement or a diagnostic service; those are different\n  registers entirely.\n\nStudies:\n  search \u003ccompany\u003e\n      device establishment registrations — who registered a facility, and what is listed in it\n\nJSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `\u003e /tmp/…` to keep it.\nRun a study with no arguments — `fda search` — to see what it takes.\n","example_command":"fda search acme medical","example_output":"","cost_class":"upstream-fetch","tier":"metered","billing_items":["signals_fda_registrations","signals_fda_registrations_cached"],"price_per_1k_calls":0.6,"price_is_from":true,"status":"available","commands":["fda"],"studies":[{"call":"search","about":"device establishment registrations — who registered a facility, and what is listed in it","args":[{"name":"company","positional":true,"list":false,"hint":"partial names match"},{"name":"since","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"registered on or after, YYYY-MM-DD"},{"name":"limit","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"how many listings"},{"name":"refresh","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"true | false — ask the FDA again"}]}],"default_enabled":false,"first_seen":"2026-09-28T05:09:33.097255Z","enabled":false}