Health Canada inspection database (DHPID): find results

You want to know whether Health Canada has inspected a drug manufacturer, a clinical trial site or a medical device company, and what it found. Health Canada publishes the results in the Drug and Health Product Inspections Database (DHPID), a set of official search pages, one per inspection program. CanQuery lists the database in its catalogue and links you to the right search; the results themselves stay on Health Canada's site.

At a glance
Publisher	Health Canada
What it covers	Each type of drug and health product inspection Health Canada does, in Canada and abroad
Time span	All inspections done since 2012
Ratings	Compliant or non-compliant; ongoing inspections show as in progress
Observations	Risk 1 (high), Risk 2 (medium) or Risk 3 (low)
Data format	Search pages and report cards; no bulk download or API

Choose the inspection program

1. Open the DHPID entry in CanQuery and follow its link to Health Canada's inspections page.
2. Pick the program that matches your question. Each has its own search:
   • drugs and drug establishment licences, under good manufacturing practices (GMP);
   • clinical trials, under good clinical practices (GCP);
   • medical devices;
   • good pharmacovigilance practices (GVP);
   • blood; cells, tissues and organs; donor sperm and ova;
   • natural health products, whose GMP inspection results were added in 2025. Only part of the natural health product site licence holders have been inspected.
3. Each program also offers ready-made lists of all its inspections and of the non-compliant ones.

Search and read a result

1. In the drugs (GMP) search, enter an establishment name, a reference number or a site, or narrow by province, rating, licence status, activity, category or date. The clinical trials search uses the sponsor, the control number, the drug name, the trial phase and the region instead.
2. The result list shows each inspection's reference number, establishment, site, start date, rating and whether the establishment is currently licensed.
3. Open the establishment to see its address, licence number, licensed activities, terms and conditions and its inspection history.
4. Open an inspection's report card for the summary of observations, the inspection outcome and the measures Health Canada took.

Read the ratings carefully

A compliant rating does not mean nothing was found: Health Canada notes that it is common for a company to be rated compliant even when a number of observations were identified. Read the observations and their risk level, from Risk 1 (high) to Risk 3 (low), before drawing a conclusion.

Inspection types are listed as initial or new, regular, re-assessment, re-inspection, targeted or for-cause. For foreign sites, both on-site inspections and paper-based reviews are listed. Audits of medical device manufacturers done by third parties under the Medical Device Single Audit Program are not included, because Health Canada does not do them. For medical devices, some fields may be blank because historical information has not been entered yet.

Health Canada updates the results regularly. A result describes the establishment at the time of the inspection; check the current licence status before relying on it.

Check the official source

Health Canada's inspections page explains each program and links to every search. The Government of Canada's dataset page describes the database. Questions about a specific inspection belong with Health Canada.

When you share a finding, include the program, the inspection's reference number and the date you consulted the database. Natural health product licences themselves are listed in the Licensed Natural Health Products Database.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.