Recall events
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Frequency
FDA Food Recall Events Per Month
Seriousness
Recall Severity Over Time
Causes
Why Food Is Recalled
Last 12 complete months
Context
Unusual months
FDA reports
Recent Recall Events
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How to read this dashboard
Methodology & limitations
What counts as a recall?
The primary unit is one distinct FDA event_id, representing a broader recall event. A single event can contain several recall numbers and product-level enforcement records. For older records without an event ID, recall number is the fallback. This reduces product-level inflation but can conceal the scope of multi-product events.
Dates and comparisons
An event is assigned to the earliest report date among its records. The trend shows the latest four complete calendar years plus the current year. The current month is marked partial and excluded from rolling 12-month headline comparisons.
Severity
Class I can cause serious consequences or death; Class II may cause temporary or reversible consequences; Class III is unlikely to cause adverse consequences. A multi-record event takes its highest reported class. Missing, unexpected, and not-yet-classified values remain visible as “Not classified / Other.”
Reasons and outliers
Recall text is assigned by ordered phrase and word-boundary rules to a practical primary category; it is not a clinical classification. A month is unusual when its event count exceeds the previous 24 months’ mean plus two population standard deviations. This is a statistical signal, not evidence of a food-safety crisis.
FDA data are updated weekly and can include later corrections. This dashboard does not measure exposure, illness, recall size, or risk to any individual.