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Search U.S. Code (FD&C Act, PHS Act)

Search and read U.S. Code (FD&C Act, PHS Act) records through the Assyro API: the current text of the FD&C Act, PHS Act Titles III and IV and the Orphan Drug…

GEThttps://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/us-code/search

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Search and read U.S. Code (FD&C Act, PHS Act) records from your own code: the current text of the FD&C Act, PHS Act Titles III and IV and the Orphan Drug Act, cited by act section and U.S. Code section. Published by Office of the Law Revision Counsel (U.S. House) via GovInfo (www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps); answered from Assyro's copy, refreshed daily 12:20 UTC.

Licence: public domain (see the terms). Each record links to its page at the source.

Example: "When do rare pediatric disease priority review vouchers stop being awarded?"

Search

GET https://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/us-code/search with any of these query parameters. Repeat a parameter for a list (?phase=PHASE2&phase=PHASE3). An unknown parameter is refused by name.

Search parameters

  • querystringrequired

    Words to find in the statute text, e.g. "priority review voucher" or "same approved use or indication". Quoted phrases match whole. A citation ("21 U.S.C. 360ff", "FD&C Act 529") returns that section.

  • actstring

    Search one act only: fdca = Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; phsa = Public Health Service Act; orphan-drug-act = Orphan Drug Act (Pub. L. 97-414). One of: fdca, phsa, orphan-drug-act.

  • limitinteger

    Sections to return, default 8.

  • offsetinteger

    Skip this many results (for paging), default 0.

Each result is a record; read one in full with Get a record.

What a record holds

  • id, title, url: the source's identifier, its title and its page at the source, to verify it.
  • authority, publishedDate, version: who published it, when, and the edition read.
  • snippet and fields: the matching text and the source's own fields.
  • asOf: the day Assyro's copy of the source was read.