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# EMA medicines data — keyless XLSX reports regenerated same-day; no public ePI API surfaced

The European Medicines Agency publishes its medicines dataset as downloadable report files, not a
REST API, from `https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/download-medicine-data` (200 HTML, listing
report categories: medicines, post-authorisation, referrals, PIPs, orphan designations, PSUSAs,
DHPCs, shortages, herbal medicines, opinions-outside-EU, etc.).

**Unlike** the FDA Orange Book (opaque CMS media id) and Purple Book (monthly dated filename), EMA's
report URLs are **stable, non-dated, and keyless**:
`GET https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/medicines-output-medicines-report_en.xlsx` → 200,
`content-type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet`,
`content-length: 901,482`, and — notably — `last-modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:02:36 GMT`, i.e.
generated **the same calendar day** this probe ran, hours earlier. This points to the file being
regenerated on a short (daily or near-daily) cycle from a live database, rather than released as a
dated monthly snapshot the way Orange Book / Purple Book are.

**No public ePI (electronic Product Information) REST API was found live.** `api.ema.europa.eu` does
not resolve/connect at all (connection failure, not a 404). `spor.ema.europa.eu/v2/epi` returns a
302 redirect away from anything resembling a documented public API. Not asserting an ePI API exists
anywhere else; recording only what two plausible guessed entry points actually did.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:08:03Z (api.ema.europa.eu connection attempt) and
2026-10-05T08:08:13Z–08:08:15Z UTC, curl 8.x,
UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`, against
`www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/download-medicine-data`,
`www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/medicines-output-medicines-report_en.xlsx`,
`api.ema.europa.eu/epi`, `spor.ema.europa.eu/v2/epi`.

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