Global Unique Device Identification Database

The FDA's public master catalog of manufacturer-submitted device records, queryable through openFDA and downloadable in full from AccessGUDID.

Records carry model, GMDN term, product code, sterilization and implantable flags, serving as device master data for supply-chain analytics.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - openFDA Unique Device Identifier (GUDID) API. - AccessGUDID full delimited release — "~400 MB compressed". - FDA Medical Devices Portal — "GUDID".

A listing label is not a deliverable: license on a name match and the shipped files may cover a narrower slice than assumed.

The failure mode is concrete: the listing promises one thing, the delivered files tell another, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

82.4% of the 1,744 cataloged datasets are free to access, and openFDA Unique Device Identifier (GUDID) API lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open openFDA Unique Device Identifier (GUDID) API and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
2. Open AccessGUDID full delimited release and confirm its record — "~400 MB compressed" — against the files you actually receive.
3. Open FDA Medical Devices Portal and confirm its record — "GUDID" — against the files you actually receive.
4. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
5. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
6. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: health-care-supplies data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - bulk download - FDA product code - gmdn term - unique device identifier