About RxRecalls
A free, searchable view of every drug recall the FDA has published, built so a person can answer one question in under a minute: has my medication been recalled, and why?
What this is
The FDA publishes drug recalls as weekly enforcement reports. The data is public, but it is spread across thousands of terse records written for regulators, not patients. This register mirrors those records and adds the layer a reader needs: a plain verdict for each drug (active recall, past recalls, none), the risk class explained, the recall reason sorted into 17 understandable causes, and a free alert if a medication you take is recalled later.
Who runs it
The site is an independent, privately run project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or funded by the FDA or by any pharmaceutical company.
There is no advertising and no sponsorship on the site, and the data is never sold. The only thing we ask for is an email address, and only if you want alerts.
Where the data comes from
Every record comes from the FDA drug enforcement reports published through openFDA (public domain, CC0). FDA publishes new records weekly and we check for them every day - the register was last synchronised on Oct 10, 2026 - and rebuild the whole set monthly so that status changes on older recalls are picked up. The register currently holds 18,003 recalls; the most recent was initiated Sep 15, 2026. There is a normal lag of days to weeks between a recall being announced and it appearing in openFDA.
How the numbers are made
- Matching a drug. A drug page lists every recall whose FDA product description contains that drug name as a whole word. Brand names, salts and packaging wording vary, so a search can miss a product or include a related one - the original description is always shown so you can judge.
- Sorting by cause. The FDA's stated reason for each recall is classified by its standard reason phrase first ("Lack of Assurance of Sterility", "Failed Dissolution Specifications"), then by rules over the full text. The original wording is shown next to every cause tag, and about 2% of recalls stay in "other" rather than be forced into a category.
- The verdict. "Active recall" means at least one FDA recall mentioning the drug still has status Ongoing. "Past recalls only" means all of them are Completed or Terminated. Neither says anything about your specific bottle - recalls usually apply to particular lot numbers.
What it deliberately does not do
- It does not give medical advice. Never stop or change a prescribed medication based on this site - talk to your pharmacist or doctor.
- It does not track you: no analytics, no advertising, no cookies of our own. See the privacy policy.
- It does not replace the FDA. For the official notice, follow the recall number to FDA's enforcement report search.