Activity over time · Analysis · Recall Observatory

Peak product year20157,390 product rows

Latest represented year20262,250 product rows

Undated products2excluded from annual bars only

Undated exact events2no usable date in grouped products

Product-row counting unit

Annual recalled products

FoodDrugDevice

The most recent year may be incomplete. Each segment is one imported enforcement row, not a quantity of physical items.

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Exact-event counting unit

Annual recall events

Placed by earliest product initiation date

An event is counted once even when it contains products from multiple endpoints. The earliest dated product across the complete exact event determines its year.

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Year	Exact events	All products	Food	Drug	Device
2005	3	3	0	0	3
2006	11	13	0	1	12
2007	9	14	0	2	12
2008	22	56	37	0	19
2009	34	112	19	0	93
2010	43	72	3	4	65
2011	149	301	57	34	210
2012	1,547	4,235	2,151	534	1,550
2013	2,152	6,942	2,420	2,085	2,437
2014	2,062	6,489	2,451	1,309	2,729
2015	2,052	7,390	2,750	1,733	2,907
2016	2,319	7,294	3,066	1,199	3,029
2017	2,033	7,077	2,623	1,141	3,313
2018	2,019	6,671	1,977	1,681	3,013
2019	1,846	6,605	1,807	1,788	3,010
2020	1,639	4,649	1,117	930	2,602
2021	1,662	4,913	1,501	1,152	2,260
2022	1,616	5,093	1,427	1,390	2,276
2023	1,674	5,952	2,221	1,122	2,609
2024	1,769	5,220	1,387	557	3,276
2025	1,832	5,183	1,571	778	2,834
2026	707	2,250	638	353	1,259