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Initiation-to-termination interval

Time to termination

Measure the calendar interval between official recall initiation and termination dates for product rows where both dates exist and form a non-negative interval.

All product types median14.0 months67,958 qualifying rows · 90th percentile 3.3 years
Food median7.1 months27,723 qualifying rows · 90th percentile 2.1 years
Drug median19.0 months14,801 qualifying rows · 90th percentile 3.6 years
Device median20.6 months25,434 qualifying rows · 90th percentile 3.9 years

Completed interval distribution

How long records remain open

67,958 qualifying product rows

30 days or less548 products
Food
525
Drug
8
Device
15
31–90 days6,356 products
Food
5,758
Drug
119
Device
479
91–180 days7,794 products
Food
5,606
Drug
637
Device
1,551
181–365 days15,986 products
Food
6,814
Drug
4,369
Device
4,803
366–730 days18,544 products
Food
5,669
Drug
4,535
Device
8,340
More than 730 days18,730 products
Food
3,351
Drug
5,133
Device
10,246

Exact summary statistics

Intervals by product type

Calendar days

Product typeQualifying rowsMedianAverage90th percentile
All product types67,9584255611192
Food27,723217340782
Drug14,8015776731316
Device25,4346277381414

Duration boundary: this is not time-to-notification, time-to-removal, or time-to-risk-control. It is only the difference between two official row-level dates. Ongoing, undated, and invalid intervals are excluded rather than treated as zero.

Field note

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