UK medicines and medical device alerts and recalls

At a glance

Publisher

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency · homepage

Category

Product recalls & safety

Jurisdiction

United Kingdom

Publisher updates

Several times a week; monitor hourly

SourceFinch checks

Hourly by default

Records per run

50 in the latest run

Record key

id

Acquired from

Publisher's public API: https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts.atom

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 12, 2026

Verified since

October 12, 2026

Last green run

October 12, 2026

What the data contains

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) publishes its alerts, recalls and safety information for medicines and medical devices on GOV.UK: class 1 to 4 medicines recalls and defect notifications (naming the company and product), device safety information, National Patient Safety Alerts, weekly lists of manufacturers' field safety notices and monthly safety roundups. GOV.UK provides the collection as an Atom feed of the 50 most recently published or updated documents. This source reads the feed hourly and makes one record per document, keyed by its feed identifier, with the title, link, last-updated time and GOV.UK's short summary. A monitor reports each new alert and each update to an existing one. Linked pages and attachments are not fetched. Titles and summaries name products and companies, not patients. An entry leaving the 50-document window is not a withdrawal. SourceFinch is independent of the MHRA.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field id identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 50 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 12, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/drug-device-alerts/class-2-medicines-recall-norgine-pharmaceuticals-limited-pedmarqsi-80-mg-slash-ml-solution-for-infusion-el-26-a-slash-42",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts/class-2-medicines-recall-norgine-pharmaceuticals-limited-pedmarqsi-80-mg-slash-ml-solution-for-infusion-el-26-a-slash-42",
    "title": "Class 2 Medicines Recall: Norgine Pharmaceuticals Limited, Pedmarqsi 80 mg/mL solution for infusion, EL(26)A/42",
    "summary": "Norgine Pharmaceuticals Limited is recalling the batches listed in the table due to risk of particulate matter being present in the product identified during routine stability investigations.",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-12T11:00:23+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/drug-device-alerts/nova-biomedical-statstrip-ketone-test-strips-risk-of-disruption-to-blood-ketone-testing-due-to-quality-control-failures-and-supply-interruption-dsi-slash-2026-slash-013",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts/nova-biomedical-statstrip-ketone-test-strips-risk-of-disruption-to-blood-ketone-testing-due-to-quality-control-failures-and-supply-interruption-dsi-slash-2026-slash-013",
    "title": "Nova Biomedical StatStrip ketone test strips: risk of disruption to blood ketone testing due to quality-control failures and supply interruption DSI/2026/013",
    "summary": "Nova Biomedical has identified quality issues affecting specified lots of StatStrip ketone test strips. The affected lots have been associated with quality-control (QC) failures and Nova Biomedical has initiated a recall, ad…",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-09T16:44:11+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/drug-device-alerts/field-safety-notices-for-october-2026",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts/field-safety-notices-for-october-2026",
    "title": "Field Safety Notices for October 2026",
    "summary": "Field Safety Notices for October 2026",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-09T16:34:40+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/drug-device-alerts/field-safety-notices-8-12-june-2026",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts/field-safety-notices-8-12-june-2026",
    "title": "Field Safety Notices: 8 -12 June 2026",
    "summary": "List of Field Safety Notices for 8-12 June 2026",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-09T15:38:29+01:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/drug-device-alerts/field-safety-notices-28-september-2026-to-2-october-2026",
    "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts/field-safety-notices-28-september-2026-to-2-october-2026",
    "title": "Field Safety Notices: 28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026",
    "summary": "List of Field Safety Notices: 21 to 25 September 2026",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-09T11:36:22+01:00"
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash b4895c0dcb809a40c6516314f06cb5bd0dfc2fb97d29dbd8d252f7fd1ade7cb1.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is 69dcf00f0c31bc10e40b558f0a308c13ea6d1b621aa967ed3e61db37a9270655, timestamped October 12, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

GOV.UK's terms state that its content, including feeds made available for other websites and applications, is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 unless otherwise stated, which permits copying, publishing, adapting and commercial use with attribution. Personal data and third-party rights are outside that licence; this source reads only feed metadata (identifiers, titles, links, revision times and summaries) for Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency documents and never fetches linked pages. www.gov.uk/robots.txt allows the feed path.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. SourceFinch is independent of the publisher.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

1

Green

100%

Failed

0

Median run time

0.7 s

Latest run

success, October 12, 2026

Measured on completed runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized, within a rolling 30-day window. First successful observation: October 12, 2026. A new recipe has only the history collected since that date; this is not a 30-day uptime guarantee.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "schema": "sourcefinch/source@1",
  "name": "UK medicines and medical device alerts and recalls",
  "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts.atom",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "entry",
    "fields": {
      "id": "id",
      "url": "link[rel=\"alternate\"]@href",
      "title": "title",
      "summary": "summary",
      "updated_at": "updated"
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "title",
      "url",
      "updated_at"
    ],
    "types": {
      "updated_at": "datetime"
    }
  },
  "schedule": "hourly",
  "key_field": "id"
}

{
  "name": "UK medicines and medical device alerts and recalls",
  "url": "https://www.gov.uk/drug-device-alerts.atom",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "xml",
    "items": "entry",
    "fields": {
      "id": "id",
      "url": "link[rel=\"alternate\"]@href",
      "title": "title",
      "summary": "summary",
      "updated_at": "updated"
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "title",
      "url",
      "updated_at"
    ],
    "types": {
      "updated_at": "datetime"
    }
  },
  "key_field": "id",
  "schedule": "hourly",
  "rights": true,
  "catalog": {
    "slug": "govuk-mhra-drug-device-alerts",
    "version_id": "2fb7ca42-6f2b-4191-87aa-1a685b8bcc4d"
  }
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/govuk-mhra-drug-device-alerts -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get govuk-mhra-drug-device-alerts --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@sourcefinch/sdk";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("govuk-mhra-drug-device-alerts");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  catalog: { slug: entry.slug, version_id: entry.recipe.version_id },
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor UK medicines and medical device alerts and recalls: get_catalog_source govuk-mhra-drug-device-alerts,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default hourly schedule this source uses about 720 runs a month. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

Guides using this source

• Follow UK product safety and medicines alerts

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