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Two drug-label endpoints show different totals
The cited DailyMed SPL service and openFDA drug-label endpoint display different totals and their own dated response fields.
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What matters now
- The DailyMed SPL service response displays "total_elements": 159058.
- The openFDA drug-label endpoint displays "total": 262663.
- The two responses include dated fields: DailyMed's db_published_date and openFDA's last_updated.
- openFDA's own notice says not to rely on its data for medical-care decisions and to assume results are unvalidated.
The cited DailyMed SPL service and openFDA drug-label endpoint return different displayed totals. Each response also includes its own dated field. The two records show what those endpoints returned; they do not establish how their data collections relate.
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Key points
- The DailyMed service response displays
"total_elements": 159058(DailyMed). - The openFDA endpoint displays
"total": 262663(openFDA). - DailyMed’s response includes
"db_published_date": "Sep 04, 2026 07:43:12PM EST"; openFDA’s includes"last_updated": "2026-09-04".
Displayed totals
The DailyMed SPL listing response displays "total_elements": 159058 (source). The openFDA drug-label response displays "total": 262663 (source). These are different totals returned by the two cited endpoints.
Dated response fields
DailyMed’s response includes "db_published_date": "Sep 04, 2026 07:43:12PM EST" (source). openFDA’s response includes "last_updated": "2026-09-04" (source). The article reports those fields as displayed, without assigning them a common definition.
Reader scope
The cited endpoint responses do not, by themselves, establish whether the totals cover the same corpus, use the same identifiers, or should be reconciled. This article therefore does not make a clinical, product-specific, completeness, or data-quality conclusion.
Source links
https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?pagesize=3 https://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?limit=1