Cortexa research tool·drug discovery·openfda_labels

FDA List Drug Classes

List FDA pharmacological drug classes (Established Pharmacologic Class, EPC) and the number of drug products in each class. Classes include designations like 'Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor [EPC]', 'Beta-Adrenergic Blocker [EPC]', 'HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor [EPC]' (statins), 'ACE Inhibitor [EPC]', etc. Use this to discover drug class names for filtering or understanding drug categorization.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 117msCortexa

Status

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Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 117ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "default": 20,
      "description": "Maximum number of drug classes to return (default: 20, max: 100)",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "limit"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default FDA List Drug Classes call

public-safeinput

{
  "limit": 3
}

Expected response keys: success

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Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_FDA_list_drug_classes
Tool name: FDA_list_drug_classes
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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