OpenFDA is an initiative to make it easier for web developers, researchers, and the public to access large, important public health datasets collected by the agency. The FDA phased in openFDA beginning in June 2014 with millions of reports of drug adverse events and medication errors that have been submitted to the FDA from 2004 to 2013. Previously, the data was only available through difficult to use reports or Freedom of Information Act requests. The pilot will be expanded to include the FDA’s databases on product recalls and product labeling.
