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FDA recall statistics skewed by separate bulletin board and enforcement record

Marler Blog 2 weeks ago 6 min read ↗ Original

FDA keeps two separate recall lists, a press-release bulletin board and a weekly Enforcement Report, that track different recalls, making recall counts unreliable.

WHY IT MATTERS

Engineers tracking food or drug supply chains cannot trust recall counts from either FDA list alone, since the bulletin board only includes recalls with press releases and the Enforcement Report is the complete record but is hard to search. The two lists count different events, so any analysis based on recall numbers must specify which list was used.

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The three things worth knowing

FDA's recall bulletin board only posts company press releases, so recalls without a press release are missing.

The weekly Enforcement Report includes all monitored recalls but is written in lot codes and appears only after classification.

The difference between the lists is whether a company issued a press release, not the hazard class or reach of the recall.

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