Health Canada Drug Product Database
health-products.canada.ca
Health Canada's Drug Product Database: the regulatory record for roughly 47,000 human, veterinary, radiopharmaceutical and disinfectant drug products authorised in Canada, searchable by DIN, brand name or active ingredient, with each product's ingredients and strengths, dosage form, route of administration, packaging, prescription schedule, ATC therapeutic class, market status history and DIN-owner company.
GET /v1/data/healthcanadadpd/active-ingredients1Request
DPD internal drug_code of the product whose ingredients you want.
Language of the ingredient names; numeric strengths are identical either way.
curl "https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/data/healthcanadadpd/active-ingredients?id=49973&lang=en" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTCRW_API_KEY"
2Response example
A sample shape. Press Run to see live data from Health Canada Drug Product Database.
| dosage_unit | dosage_value | drug_code | ingredient_name | strength | strength_unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49973 | ATORVASTATIN (ATORVASTATIN CALCIUM) | 10 | MG |
Attribution: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Source: Drug Product Database, Health Canada
Licence: The Drug Product Database is published by Health Canada on open.canada.ca (dataset "Drug Product Database - All Files") under the Open Government Licence - Canada (license_id "ca-ogl-lgo"), which states: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below. You are free to: Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. You must, where you do any of the above: Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several information providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada." Exemptions: "This licence does not grant you any right to use: Personal Information; third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to license; the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider; and Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks." Non-endorsement: "This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information." No warranty: "The Information is licensed 'as is', and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law." The DPD API Guide itself states: "This Application Programming Interface (API) allows developers to access that information in JSON and XML format for reuse in their own applications." Health Canada also warns on the same page that it "is the federal regulator of therapeutic products and does not provide medical advice on the use of the products identified in this database."
Ask with this source
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Active ingredients of a product
Use Health Canada Drug Product Database (healthcanadadpd) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Active ingredients of a product" (active-ingredients). You have a drug_code and need to know what is actually in the product and at what strength. Example options: id=49973, lang=en. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "healthcanadadpd" and capability "active-ingredients". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
All companies
Use Health Canada Drug Product Database (healthcanadadpd) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "All companies" (companies). You want the whole list of Canadian drug sponsors, to search by name or to join company codes locally rather than one call per product. Example options: lang=en. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "healthcanadadpd" and capability "companies". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Company by company code
Use Health Canada Drug Product Database (healthcanadadpd) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Company by company code" (company). You have a company_code from a product record and want the registered address of the DIN owner. Example options: id=10825, lang=en. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "healthcanadadpd" and capability "company". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Dosage forms of a product
Use Health Canada Drug Product Database (healthcanadadpd) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Dosage forms of a product" (dosage-form). You have a drug_code and need the physical presentation of the product. Example options: id=49973, active=yes, lang=en. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "healthcanadadpd" and capability "dosage-form". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>