RecallRadar — FDA Recall Intelligence
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RecallRadar — FDA Recall Intelligence

The FDA publishes recalls in three separate enforcement datasets — drugs, food, and medical devices — and never connects them. RecallRadar resolves the recalling firm across all three, de-duplicates name variants into one canonical entity, and rolls every enforcement report up to that firm with severity, geography, reason, and a deterministic 0–1 risk score. The result: a clean, firm-level view of who recalls repeatedly, how severely, and across how many regulated product lines — the supply-chain and compliance signal that flat, siloed openFDA data can’t show on its own.

Preview-only page. It shows the structure and capability of this dataset using a limited, representative sample. The firm-level risk score, the cross-category linkage flag, and the per-record quality score — the sellable columns — are withheld, and the full dataset is not downloadable here. It is provided separately after licensing.

Coverage & headline figures

Built from three free, public openFDA enforcement endpoints and cross-linked into one firm-resolved, scored, exportable product. Deterministic and rule-based — no LLM in the pipeline.

2,100
FDA recall records
drug + food + device
1,103
Distinct resolved firms
the cross-source hub
3
openFDA enforcement sources
drug · food · device
2008–2026
Recall-year range
by initiation date
11
Multi-category firms
recall in 2+ product lines
453
Class I (most severe) recalls
21.6% of records

Category mix: Drug 700 · Food 700 · Device 700. Classification mix: Class I 453 · Class II 1,522 · Class III 125. Average record quality score 0.838 (0–1 completeness); 77 cross-linked recalls span the 11 multi-category firms.

Sources (all free, keyless, public-domain)

  • openFDA Drug Enforcement (drug/enforcement.json) → drug recall enforcement reports (firm, class, reason, distribution).
  • openFDA Food Enforcement (food/enforcement.json) → food & dietary recall enforcement reports.
  • openFDA Device Enforcement (device/enforcement.json) → medical-device recall enforcement reports.

What’s in it — schema

Two cross-linked tables. firms is the headline deliverable — the resolved, cross-category entity; recalls is the row-level enforcement detail that rolls up into it.

Tables in the dataset
Table Grain (one row =) Notable columns Rows
firms one resolved recalling firm recall_count, class_i_count, category_count, risk_score 1,103
recalls one FDA enforcement record classification, reason_category, is_cross_linked, quality_score 2,100

Columns in recalls (row-level detail)

recall_number FDA recall number (unique)
category Drug / Food / Device
recalling_firm Firm name as reported by FDA
normalized_firm Canonical firm key (cross-link key)
classification / severity Class I / II / III → 3 / 2 / 1
status Ongoing / Completed / Terminated
city / state / country Firm location
reason_for_recall Verbatim FDA reason text
reason_category Rule-categorized theme (taxonomy)
recall_initiation_date / year ISO date + year initiated
is_cross_linked 1 if firm spans 2+ categories — gated
quality_score 0–1 completeness score — gated

Columns in firms (the headline table)

display_name Resolved, de-duplicated firm name
normalized_name Canonical cross-link key (unique)
recall_count Total recalls for this firm
class_i_count Count of Class I (most severe) recalls
categories Distinct product lines spanned — gated
category_count Cross-category breadth (the linkage) — gated
risk_score 0–1 deterministic firm risk blend — gated

Sample preview gated

A representative slice of resolved firms — the kind of repeat Class I recallers firm resolution surfaces. Recall counts, Class I counts, location, and year range are shown; the cross-category linkage flag and the firm risk score — the proprietary, sellable columns — are redacted. Eight of 1,103 firms; ordering does not reflect the risk score.

firms — 8 sample rows (linkage flag & risk score withheld)
Firm Location Product line Recalls Class I Years Cross-category link Firm risk score
King Bio Inc. Asheville, NC Drug 19 19 2018 •••• 0.•••
Customed, Inc Fajardo, PR Device 22 14 2014–2016 •••• 0.•••
Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. Milwaukee, WI Food 13 13 2012–2013 •••• 0.•••
FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC Baltimore, MD Food 11 11 2023 •••• 0.•••
Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. Brenham, TX Food 8 8 2015 •••• 0.•••
Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. Beaverton, OR Food 8 8 2013–2025 •••• 0.•••
Sunland, Incorporated Portales, NM Food 7 7 2012 •••• 0.•••
Newly Weds Foods Inc Chicago, IL Food 22 5 2017–2023 •••• 0.•••

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Get a live, end-to-end sample of RecallRadar — the resolved firms table with cross-category linkage and risk scores, plus the full recall-level enforcement detail, quality scores, and methodology.

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No full dataset is downloadable from this page. Public-domain U.S. Government data (openFDA); not affiliated with the U.S. FDA.