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Food and drug safety charts
14 charts about food and drug safety, each with its public source, its numbers and its date.
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Which companies have had the most FDA food recalls?
Whole Foods Market has had the most FDA food recalls since June 2012, 64 through October 28, 2026, followed by Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. (41) and The Kroger...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Oct 28, 2026
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How many food recalls are for salmonella each year?
The FDA classified 77 food recalls for salmonella in 2025; the most since 2013 was 80 in 2016. Salmonella is a germ that causes food poisoning, often from eg...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Oct 28, 2026
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How many food recalls are for listeria each year?
The FDA classified 63 food recalls for listeria in 2025; the most since 2013 was 139 in 2016. Listeria is a germ that can grow in the refrigerator and is mos...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Oct 21, 2026
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How many food recalls are for undeclared allergens each year?
The FDA classified 190 food recalls in 2025 for an allergen left off the label, such as milk, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, eggs, fish, shellfish or sesame...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Oct 28, 2026
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How many drug recalls are there each month?
The FDA classified 38 drug recalls in September 2026. Since January 2025, the monthly count has ranged from 17 in February 2026 to 44 in July 2026. Each reca...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA drug recall data) · Data as of Oct 28, 2026
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How many food recalls are there each month?
The FDA classified 46 food recalls in September 2026. Since January 2025, the monthly count has ranged from 30 in May 2025 to 69 in October 2025. Each recall...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Oct 28, 2026
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Why is food recalled?
The most common reason is “allergen not on the label”: 2,501 of the 7,081 food recalls the FDA classified from 2013 through 2025, about 35%. Listeria (847) a...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025
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Why are drugs recalled?
The most common reason in the 4,274 drug recalls the FDA classified from 2013 through 2025 was “not made under good manufacturing practices”: 673 recalls, ab...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA drug recall data) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025
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Which side effects are reported most for metformin?
Nausea (30,587 reports) and diarrhea (28,674) are the reactions named most often in reports to the FDA, as of September 2026, that list a medicine containing...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA · Data as of Sep 30, 2026
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Which side effects are reported most for lisinopril?
Fatigue (20,635 reports), nausea and diarrhea are the reactions named most often in reports to the FDA, as of September 2026, that list lisinopril (Zestril, ...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA · Data as of Sep 30, 2026
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How serious are food recalls?
Of the 7,081 food recalls the FDA classified from 2013 through 2025, 2,885 (about 41%) were Class I, meaning the food could cause serious harm or death, as w...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025
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How many food recalls are there each year?
The FDA classified 575 food recalls in 2025; the busiest year since 2013 was 2016, with 782. About 4 in 10 food recalls from 2013 to 2025 were Class I, the m...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025
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How many drug recalls are there each year?
The FDA classified 327 drug recalls in 2025, and between about 260 and 390 each year from 2013 to 2025. Most are Class II, which could cause temporary or min...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA drug recall data) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025
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Which side effects are reported most for atorvastatin?
Fatigue (14,619 reports), nausea and diarrhea are the reactions named most often in the reports to the FDA, as of September 2026, that list atorvastatin (Lip...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA · Data as of Sep 30, 2026