Health Products Canada Ca Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API

Name: Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API
Brand: Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API
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Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API.

Search drug products by DIN, brand name, or active ingredient via /drugproduct/

Retrieve active-ingredient details and strength data via /activeingredient/

Look up the company (manufacturer, distributor, or marketer) tied to a drug via /company/

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View OpenAPI Document

The Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API provides public access to information on approved drug products in Canada, including human, veterinary, and disinfectant products. The API exposes endpoints for active ingredients, companies, drug products, dosage forms, packaging, pharmaceutical standards, routes of administration, schedules, statuses, therapeutic classes, and veterinary species. Pharmacy software, clinical decision-support tools, and public-health researchers use it to look up authorised products by DIN, brand name, or ingredient.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Pharmacy Lookup of Canadian Drug Products

Pharmacy software queries /drugproduct/ by DIN to fetch the brand name, dosage form, and approved indications for a prescription. The /activeingredient/ endpoint returns the strengths used in the product, which lets the pharmacy system flag duplicates when a patient is already on a similar product. This grounds dispensing decisions in the official Health Canada record rather than a third-party data feed.

GET /drugproduct/ filtered by din and return the brand name, company id, and dosage form id

Clinical Decision Support

Clinical apps combine /activeingredient/, /therapeuticclass/, and /schedule/ to surface drug class, controlled-substance schedule, and ingredient strength when a clinician searches for a product. Joining these resources gives a richer view than any single endpoint and supports interaction checks and prescribing rules. The data is the official regulatory record, which helps when audited.

Fetch /therapeuticclass/ and /schedule/ for a drug product id and return the class name and schedule label

Veterinary Drug Lookup by Species

Veterinary practice management tools use /veterinaryspecies/ to filter approved drugs by the species being treated. Combined with /drugproduct/ and /route/, the result is a list of authorised products for, say, equine or bovine use, with the approved route of administration. This avoids manually scraping the public DPD search page.

GET /veterinaryspecies/ filtered by speciesname and return the list of approved drug code ids

AI Agent Drug Lookup via Jentic

Health-focused agents search Jentic for 'look up a Canadian drug product' and Jentic returns the /drugproduct/ operation along with related ingredient and company endpoints. Because the DPD API is unauthenticated, agents can call it without credentials, but routing through Jentic adds caching, rate-limit handling, and a consistent search interface across other healthcare APIs. This makes Canadian drug data trivially composable into agent workflows.

Use Jentic search 'look up a Canadian drug product' to load /drugproduct/ and execute with a brand name parameter

Key Endpoints

11 endpoints — the health canada drug product database (dpd) api provides public access to information on approved drug products in canada, including human, veterinary, and disinfectant products.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/drugproduct/

List or search drug products

GET

/activeingredient/

Read active ingredient details

GET

/company/

Read company records

GET

/form/

List dosage forms

GET

/route/

List routes of administration

GET

/schedule/

Read controlled-substance schedules

GET

/therapeuticclass/

Look up therapeutic classes

GET

/veterinaryspecies/

Filter products by veterinary species

GET

/drugproduct/

List or search drug products

GET

/activeingredient/

Read active ingredient details

GET

/company/

Read company records

GET

/form/

List dosage forms

GET

/route/

List routes of administration

GET

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The DPD API is unauthenticated, so there are no credentials to manage. Jentic still routes the call through its execution layer to apply caching, rate-limit backoff, and a consistent response format with other healthcare tools.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic for 'look up a Canadian drug product' or 'find drug by ingredient' and Jentic returns the matching DPD operations with their query parameters.

Time to first call

Direct DPD integration: a few hours to wire query parameters and CSV-style response handling. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes — search, load, execute.

FAQs

Specific to using Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Health Canada Drug Product Database API use?

The DPD API is public and does not require authentication. The OpenAPI spec defines no security schemes, so calls go through with no API key or token attached.

Can I look up a Canadian drug by DIN?

Yes. Call GET /drugproduct/ and pass the DIN as a query filter; the response contains the brand name, company id, and links to the dosage form, ingredient, and packaging records for that product.

What are the rate limits for the Health Canada DPD API?

Health Canada does not publish a hard rate limit, but the service is shared and the documentation asks consumers to throttle bulk requests. For automation, batch reads and cache results where possible to avoid being deprioritised.

How do I find all products containing a specific active ingredient through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'find drug products by ingredient', load the /activeingredient/ operation for health-products.canada.ca, and execute with the ingredient name. Cross-reference the result with /drugproduct/ to get the full product list.

Is the Health Canada DPD API free?

Yes. The DPD API is provided by the Government of Canada at no cost. Use of the data is subject to the Open Government Licence — Canada.

Does the DPD API include veterinary drugs?

Yes. /veterinaryspecies/ lists the approved species for veterinary drug products, and /drugproduct/ returns both human and veterinary products. Filter by class or species to scope results to one audience.