Initiation date available
Required for calendar placement; undated rows remain in ledgers.
Analysis readiness
Data quality ledger
Make the analytical boundary visible: which official fields and exact joins are available, which are provisional, and which enrichment layers are absent from the current corpus.
Product-row field coverage
Can each record support the next analysis?
100%
Exact event grouping
Grouped only when the exact numeric FDA event identifier is usable.
Official recall identity
Rows without a recall number retain a deterministic provisional identity.
Linked firm record
Firm keys normalize formatting only; distinct names are not merged semantically.
Recall reason available
Official wording is the evidence base for derived failure-mode rules.
Event grouping states
Exact joins
- Grouped
- 86,536
Record identity states
Official vs provisional
- Official
- 86,533
- Provisional
- 3
Device enrichment states
Root-cause evidence
- Sourced
- 32,075
- Unavailable
- 3
- Unknown
- 7,441
Derived interpretation coverage
Failure-mode assignments
- Products with assignment
- 86,487
- Products without assignment
- 49
Source provenance
Current dataset snapshots
| Dataset | Kind | Product type | Coverage | Snapshot records | Published | Known gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openFDA Device Recall | Device enrichment | Device | 1997-06-01–2026-06-30 | 58,737 | July 16, 2026 | 0 |
| openFDA Device Enforcement | Enforcement | Device | 2012-06-20–2026-07-08 | 39,519 | July 16, 2026 | 1 |
| openFDA Drug Enforcement | Enforcement | Drug | 2012-06-20–2026-07-08 | 17,793 | July 16, 2026 | 1 |
| openFDA Food Enforcement | Enforcement | Food | 2012-06-20–2026-07-08 | 29,224 | July 16, 2026 | 1 |
Missingness is not zero: unavailable dates, ungrouped events, provisional identities, and unenriched device records remain explicit states. Analysis pages exclude or separate them according to the counting contract shown on each page.