Parse ANMAT (Argentina) alertas page for medical device safety alerts. Parses the main alertas page which lists alerts with dates. Filters fo

Checks ANVISA (Brazil) medical device tecnovigilance alerts. Parses antigo.anvisa.gov.br/alertas?tagsName=tecnovigilancia page which lists FS

Parses Atom feeds (RFC 4287) for new entries since last check. Covers: GOV.UK Atom feeds (MHRA, HSE), EU Atom feeds, etc.

Scrapes CDRH News and Updates page for regulatory announcements. Captures: town halls, guidance announcements, policy updates, and other CDRH

Parse COFEPRIS (Mexico) alertas sanitarias page for medical device alerts.

Checks Health Canada recalls and safety alerts for medical devices. Uses the official Open Data JSON dataset from recalls-rappels.canada.ca.

Loads all _index.json files and version_registry.json to classify detections.

Scrapes EC Medical Devices Latest Updates page for regulatory news. This page covers a much wider scope than the MDCG guidance list: - Delega

Checks EUR-Lex for harmonised standards amendments via CELLAR SPARQL API. Three-layer detection: 1. SPARQL query: Get all consolidated v

Checks OpenFDA Enforcement API for new Class I medical device recalls. Class I recalls are the most serious: reasonable probability that use of o

Checks OpenFDA device/recall.json for recently initiated recalls (all classes). This replaces the web-scraping FDASafetyPageChecker because FDA p

Scrapes a generic announcement/news page for new links. Simple approach: extract all <a> tags with href, filter by title_filter, detect new t

Checks HSA announcements page for medical device related news. Parses the announcements listing page and filters for entries tagged with 'Med

Checks HSA guidance documents page for newly updated regulatory guidance. The page lists all medical device GN/GL documents with revision numbers

Scrapes EC MDCG guidance page to detect new/updated MDCG documents.

Checks MFDS (Korea) English news page for medical device regulatory updates. Korea is transitioning from MFDS to DMPA (2026 reform). Captures

Checks Medsafe (NZ) Safety Communications for medical device alerts. Parses the HTML table with columns: Date, Communication, Product Type, Topic

Checks PMDA (Japan) English pages for medical device safety & regulatory updates. Parses tabular pages: Medical Safety Information, Revisions of

Checks PMDA Japanese recall list pages for medical device recalls. Parses the structured HTML tables at info.pmda.go.jp with device name, man

Checks PMDA English 'What's New' page for device-related updates. This page (https://www.pmda.go.jp/english/0006.html) lists all recent PMDA

Checks SFDA (Saudi Arabia) for medical device safety updates. Two sources: 1. NCMDR Weekly Alert page (weekly PDF reports) -- parsed from HTM

Checks Swissmedic FSCA (Field Safety Corrective Actions) via CSV export API. The API returns a CSV with columns: swissmedicRef, publicationDa

Check Taiwan TFDA medical device safety alerts via open data API. Uses the government open data API at data.fda.gov.tw which provides medical

Parses TGA RSS feeds for medical device safety alerts and market actions. Falls back gracefully if TGA RSS feeds are unreachable (HTTP/2 errors

Tracks version history for all regulatory documents.

Unified search via Vertex AI Search (preferred) or Google CSE (legacy).

Fetch FDA guidance documents using curl-cffi to bypass Akamai bot detection.

Generic fetcher that handles direct PDF URLs and HTML pages.

Extract text from PDF using PyMuPDF.