Active ingredients and Brazilian DCB records

Canonical ingredient versus published text#

A medication's active_ingredient_text is a text field. It is not an ActiveIngredient UUID and does not independently confirm a structured link. GET /v1/ingredients/{id} requires a real canonical ingredient UUID from an approved catalog link.

Retrieve by identifier#

curl --fail-with-body "$IABULA_API_BASE/v1/ingredients/$IABULA_INGREDIENT_ID" \
  --header "X-API-Key: $IABULA_API_KEY"

Set IABULA_INGREDIENT_ID to an existing canonical identifier. The response contains id, name, dcbs and evidence. Each DCB contains id, code, denomination and evidence. An unknown ingredient returns HTTP 404; this is not evidence that the substance does not exist.

What DCB records add#

DCB means Denominação Comum Brasileira, the Brazilian common denomination. The adopted dataset provides the public number and denomination. Do not infer clinical properties, therapeutic equivalence or recommendations from a name. Evidence identifies source data and supported catalog links.

GET /v1/ingredients/{id}#

OpenAPI contract fields#