About the data

RxMonitor shows what Health Canada and provincial drug programs have published about medications authorised for sale in Canada. Everything here comes from open government data, and every page carries its source and the date it was last updated.

What we show

Medications authorised for human use and currently marketed in Canada — 11,417 products. Veterinary products, hard-surface disinfectants and radiopharmaceuticals are excluded from search. Products that were once authorised but are no longer marketed can still be looked up by their DIN, and are labelled as such.

What we do not do

• We do not rate, score or rank medications. There is no “best” list here and there never will be.
• We do not say what a medication should be used for, or at what dose.
• We do not tell you that two products are interchangeable. Sharing an active ingredient is not the same thing, and interchangeability is a provincial determination.

A note on what absence means

Where this site shows nothing, it says why. Health Canada’s recalls feed does not carry drug identification numbers, so matching a recall to a specific product is imperfect — the absence of a recall on a page here is never evidence that a medication has not been recalled. When it matters, check the official source, which we link to every time.

Source: Health Canada — Drug Product Database; Health Canada — Recalls and Safety Alerts; Ontario Ministry of Health — ODB Formulary. Data current as of 2026-08-12. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada and the Open Government Licence – Ontario 1.0.