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  • Dataset id: fda_advisory_committees
  • Jurisdiction: US · FDA
  • Date field: end_date. The search’s top-level date_from and date_to filter on it.
  • Access: any API key.

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Filters

Send these under filters.fda_advisory_committees in a search request. A filter not listed here, or a value of the wrong type, is a 400. The top-level date_from and date_to set date_from and date_to below, so give a date in one place only.
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string
Keyword match on meeting title (BM25 tokenized).
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string
Keyword match on the committee name as printed on the meeting page body (e.g. ‘Oncologic Drugs’, ‘Vaccines and Related Biological Products’). BM25 tokenized.
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string
Keyword match on FDA center, BM25 tokenized. The column stores the full name (e.g. ‘Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’); search by tokens that appear in the full name like ‘Drug’, ‘Devices’, ‘Biologics’, ‘Tobacco’, ‘Veterinary’, ‘Toxicological’. Short abbreviations (CDER, CBER, CDRH) do NOT match the center field — pass those via keywords to search the body text instead.
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string
Exact-match Federal Register docket number, e.g. ‘FDA-2023-N-4807’. NULL for pre-FR-notice pages (no docket assigned yet).
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string
Enumerable status — ‘upcoming’ if the meeting end_date is in the future, else ‘past’; re-derived on every refresh.Values: upcoming, past.
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string | string[]
Exact match on the kind of document; one value or a list. ‘meeting_page’ is the announcement page itself; the rest are the files FDA posted for the meeting: ‘briefing_document’, ‘presentation’, ‘transcript’, ‘minutes’ (incl. 24-hour summaries; where vote tallies are), ‘questions’, ‘roster’, ‘agenda’, ‘conflict_of_interest’, ‘public_comment’, ‘other’ (also files whose title names no kind; search those with keywords).Values: meeting_page, briefing_document, presentation, transcript, minutes, questions, roster, agenda, conflict_of_interest, public_comment, other.
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string
Keyword match on the file’s own title (BM25 tokenized), e.g. ‘FDA Briefing Document’, ‘Sponsor’, a company name. NULL on meeting_page rows.
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string (date)
Inclusive lower bound (YYYY-MM-DD) on the meeting’s last day.
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string (date)
Inclusive upper bound (YYYY-MM-DD) on the meeting’s first day.

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Fields

Each result from this dataset has these in fields: center, committee_name, docket_number, end_date, last_updated_date, material_title, material_type, meeting_status, meeting_url, start_date, title, url, year