@pipeworx/mfds-drugs

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Tools: 2

MFDS, South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety register of licensed medicines (식품의약품안전처 의약품통합정보): search by Korean or English brand name, English active ingredient or holder company, and get the full record for one product in South Korea.

Scope: South Korea only

For the US use openfda; EU-wide, ema-medicines; Australia, tga-artg; Singapore, hsa-singapore. Tools are prefixed mfds_ so they never win a generic drug question.

Tools

• mfds_drug_search(query, by?, status?, limit?, page?) — Is Tylenol approved in Korea? Which Korean products contain acetaminophen? What does a given company hold? Returns Korean and English brand name, holder, authorisation number and date, status (authorised / withdrawn / expired / cancelled / business closed as the register states it), main ingredient, ATC code, prescription or OTC class, domestic or import. 15 per page, 1-based page; the response carries total, has_more and next_page. Zero matches returns found: false with an empty_reason.
• mfds_drug_get(id) — the full record for one item code (품목기준코드): adds appearance, assessment type (generic or new drug), every active ingredient with amount and unit, excipients, barcodes, and links to the official efficacy, dosage, precautions and consumer-summary documents. Unknown code returns found: false.

Every response carries source and data_as_of (fetch time: the register is queried live per request and nothing is stored).

Auth

Keyless. This pack does not use the registered-key open API; it reads the register’s public search.

Data sources

• MFDS (식품의약품안전처, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety), Drug Integrated Information System: the register of medicines licensed in South Korea.

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover

• There is no Korean active-ingredient search. The ingredient filter is ignored for Korean text and returns the whole register (95,000+ rows). The pack therefore matches Korean text against the brand name (Korean product names usually contain the ingredient) and refuses a Korean by: "ingredient" with a message.
• English ingredient names match as the register writes them (“acetaminophen”, not “paracetamol”). Brand-name matching is by substring.
• The default includes every status (authorised, withdrawn, expired, cancelled, business closed); use status: "authorised" for current licences only.
• Status values stay as the register states them; status is the English mapping and status_register the original Korean word.
• Strength is only in the detail record, not in search rows. The detail page is large (several hundred KB), so mfds_drug_get is a heavier call than search; if it cannot be read the record is still returned with a note.
• Page size is 15 and fixed upstream; limit can only trim a page.

Tools

• mfds_drug_search — Search SOUTH KOREA’s licensed medicines register (MFDS, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety; 식품의약품안전처 의약품통합정보) by Korean or English brand name, English active ingredient, or holder company: 한국 허가 의약품 검색.
• mfds_drug_get — Full MFDS record for one Korean licensed medicine, by item code (품목기준코드, from mfds_drug_search): brand names, holder, authorisation number and date, status, ATC code, appearance, assessment type (gene