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Food and drug safety charts
8 charts about food and drug safety, each with its public source, its numbers and its date.
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Why is food recalled?
An allergen missing from the label is by far the most common reason: 2,501 of the 7,081 food recalls the FDA classified from 2013 through 2025, about 35%. Li...
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 is how a drug was made: 673 of the 4,274 drug recalls the FDA classified from 2013 through 2025 (about 16%) were for not following goo...
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 (30,267 reports) and diarrhea (28,320), known stomach side effects of metformin, are the reactions named most often in the roughly 440,000 reports to ...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA · Data as of Jun 30, 2026
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Which side effects are reported most for lisinopril?
Fatigue (20,512 reports), nausea and diarrhea are the reactions named most often in the roughly 314,000 reports to the FDA, as of June 2026, that list lisino...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA · Data as of Jun 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 most since 2018; the busiest year was 2016, with 782. About 4 in 10 food recalls since 2013 were Class I, th...
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 since 2013. Most are Class II, which could cause temporary or minor harm...
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 (14,402 reports), nausea and diarrhea are the reactions named most often in the roughly 250,000 reports to the FDA, as of June 2026, that list atorva...
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) via openFDA · Data as of Jun 30, 2026