Pet Drug Reports

Data sources and licences

Last checked against the FDA pages:

openFDA animal and veterinary adverse event reports

  • Publisher: the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, through openFDA.
  • Access: the download files that api.fda.gov/download.json lists. They are quarterly parts of zipped JSON. The site uses no API key.
  • Licence: CC0 1.0, public domain. The openFDA terms of service apply.
  • Export used: . It has 1,378,761 reports with a usable date of receipt, received through .
  • Update: openFDA updates the files each quarter. FDA says that a report can take 3 to 6 months to appear.
  • Masking: the records give the value MSK for the brand name and the manufacturer name. See why you will not find brand names in the statistics.

Notice of openFDA

The footer of every page shows this notice. It is the text of meta.disclaimer in a response of the openFDA animal and veterinary event endpoint. The site read it on .

Do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care. While we make every effort to ensure that data is accurate, you should assume all results are unvalidated. We may limit or otherwise restrict your access to the API in line with our Terms of Service.

FDA Approved Animal Drug Products (Green Book)

  • Publisher: the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, through Animal Drugs @ FDA.
  • Licence: work of the US government, in the public domain (17 U.S.C. section 105). A trade name belongs to its owner. The site uses it only to name the product that FDA lists.
  • File used: the Green Book of , with 2,432 applications. FDA updates the Green Book each month.
  • Use: the names of active ingredients, the brand names, the sponsors, the species, the dose forms and the routes.
  • Limit: the site does not link an entry of the Green Book to a report. No count belongs to a brand, an application or a sponsor.

FDA's statement about the data

Each page of a drug, species, breed, clinical sign or month shows this statement of FDA as a quotation.

An API dataset query result cannot be used to estimate the risk associated with the product or compare one drug or device product with another. When looking at the results, be aware that there is no certainty that the reported drug or device caused the adverse event. This dataset should not be the sole source of information for clinical decision-making or other assumptions about the safety or effectiveness of a product. The adverse event may have been related to an underlying disease, other drugs used at the same time or other non-drug related sources.

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine. Source: Adverse Event Reports for Animal Drugs and Devices. The site read the page on .

A reference to a commercial product on this site is not an endorsement by FDA, and FDA has not reviewed this site.

Other pages that the site quotes

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