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Alerts, downloads and history
National registers overwrite their lists every day. We keep a dated copy of each one, so the archive shows when every shortage started, how long it lasted and when it ended, across 16 countries.
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Download today's list
shortages-today.csv: every product short today in 16 countries, matched by active ingredient and company group (13,767 rows). Free to reuse with a link to shortagewatch.org; source data stays under each authority's terms (see sources).
For professionals
The same data, deeper and machine-readable, for teams that act on supply problems:
- Parallel importers and wholesalers: where a medicine is short and where it is not on the list, by pack and company.
- Hospital pharmacy and procurement: alerts on your formulary, with return dates and their changes.
- Generics business development: long-running and recurring shortages by molecule and country.
- Analysts: daily history by company group, with event-level changes since our archive began.
On request: the full daily archive as CSV or Parquet. An API and an MCP server for AI assistants are in development. Write to contact@shortagewatch.org with what you need.
Status of each source: source status.