{"slug":"fda","domain":"research","title":"FDA: what it approved, and who registered a device facility","summary":"Breakthrough-therapy and novel drug approvals, each with what it was approved to treat; and device establishment registrations, months before a product ships.","help":"fda: the FDA's approvals and device 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\nWHAT THE FDA APPROVED\n  `fda breakthrough` is every approval of a breakthrough-therapy designated\n  drug since 2013, and `fda approvals` a year's novel drug approvals: each row\n  the drug, what it was approved to treat, the date, and the FDA document it is\n  read from, which is the citation. They are the agency's own lists, read\n  through `browser`; each source says how many rows were read beside the total\n  the document states.\n\nStudies:\n  search       \u003ccompany\u003e\n      device establishment registrations — who registered a facility, and what is listed in it\n  breakthrough \u003cquery\u003e\n      approvals of breakthrough-therapy designated drugs since 2013, newest first — each drug, what it was approved to treat, and when\n  approvals    \u003cquery\u003e\n      a year's novel drug approvals, newest first — each new drug, what it was approved to treat, and when\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 breakthrough lymphoma","example_output":"","cost_class":"upstream-fetch","tier":"metered","billing_items":["signals_fda_registrations","signals_fda_registrations_cached","biotech_drug"],"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"}]},{"call":"breakthrough","about":"approvals of breakthrough-therapy designated drugs since 2013, newest first — each drug, what it was approved to treat, and when","args":[{"name":"query","positional":true,"list":false,"hint":"words a row holds — lymphoma, hepatitis delta; * for all"},{"name":"since","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"approved on or after, YYYY-MM-DD"},{"name":"limit","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"how many approvals"}]},{"call":"approvals","about":"a year's novel drug approvals, newest first — each new drug, what it was approved to treat, and when","args":[{"name":"query","positional":true,"list":false,"hint":"words a row holds — parkinson, glioma; * for all"},{"name":"year","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"the year's list; this year by default"},{"name":"since","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"approved on or after, YYYY-MM-DD"},{"name":"limit","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"how many approvals"}]}],"default_enabled":false,"first_seen":"2026-09-28T05:09:33.097255Z","enabled":false}