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Long-form technical writing on the public databases behind human and veterinary medicines — what each one contains, how they are keyed, what they get wrong, and how they fit together. Written and published by Leverage AI LLC, independently of the data itself.

Independent technical report

Open Government Databases for Human and Animal Prescription Therapeutics

A technical survey of the open regulatory databases behind human and veterinary medicines - Orange Book, Drugs@FDA, Purple Book, DailyMed, RxNorm, FAERS, the Green Book, FARAD VetGRAM, the EMA Union Product Database, UK VMD and Health Canada DPD - including their statutory frameworks, data formats, join keys and ETL hazards.

Published
2026-09-25
Author
Jon "Mike" Schlottig
Reading time
~18 min

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Why these are published here

OpenRx is a working implementation of what these reports describe. Publishing the research alongside the dataset means a reader can check the reasoning against the artefact rather than taking either on trust — and anyone rebuilding this does not have to rediscover the same join keys, format quirks and data hazards from scratch.

111 primary sources are catalogued across 51 domains, and every one is linked from the report itself.