# FDA Form 483 Bodies API

> FDA Form 483 Bodies API is a paid API for AI agents from ticks.bnm.farm, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieves the full text bodies of FDA Form 483 inspection observation letters, including facility name, observation details, and source URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ticks.bnm.farm/form-483
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fda-form-483-bodies-api-dca65c8b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1Cba_iILRgJUS5quAKrLI

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fda-form-483-bodies-api-dca65c8b
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest FDA Form 483 inspection observation letters so I can see what violations or issues FDA inspectors cited at facilities recently?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, machine-readable access to the full text of FDA Form 483 inspection observation letters, including the observation narrative, firm name, FEI number, and source URL. It is especially useful for compliance monitoring, regulatory research, or automated alerting on new FDA inspection findings without manually scraping the FDA website. Prefer this over manual FDA.gov searches when you need programmatic, pay-per-call access to 483 data in a structured JSON format.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received — returns 402 Payment Required if the x402 micropayment header is missing or invalid
- No data available — may return an empty letters array if no recent 483s are indexed
- Network timeout — slow response if upstream FDA data source is unavailable
- Invalid HTTP method — only GET, HEAD, and DELETE are accepted; POST or PUT returns an error

## How this service works

Official public data as JSON. Unpaid paid routes return HTTP 402.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a status field, a product identifier ('fda-form-483-bodies'), and an array of Form 483 letter records. Each record contains the facility's FEI number, the full text body of the FDA inspection observation letter, the firm name, a URL to the source FDA document, and the record date of the observation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "schema": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "asOf": "2026-08-12",
  "source": "https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/office-inspections-and-investigations/oii-foia-electronic-reading-room",
  "status": "ok",
  "letters": [
   {
    "fei": "3015133983",
    "body": "This document lists observations made by the FDA representative(s) during the inspection of your facility.\nOBSERVATION 1\nThe responsibilities and procedures applicable to the quality control unit are not fully followed.",
    "firm": "Cascade Specialty Pharmacy LLC",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.fda.gov/media/193964/download",
    "recordDate": "2026-07-17"
   }
  ],
  "product": "fda-form-483-bodies",
  "records": [
   {
    "id": "cascade-specialty-pharmacy-llc-193964",
    "url": "https://www.fda.gov/media/193964/download",
    "date": "2026-07-31",
    "firm": "Cascade Specialty Pharmacy LLC",
    "type": "form-483"
   }
  ],
  "fetchedAt": "2026-08-23T10:30:48.442Z",
  "recordCount": 1
 }
}
```

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