Public lookup

Recalls and field safety notices

Recalls and field safety notices are published at model level. Anyone wanting to know whether a notice exists for a device designation searches several registers one by one today. This page queries them in one step and names the register, date and identifier for every hit.

This lookup works at model level and without an account. It knows no device inventory, matches nothing against one, and does not store the input. Matching against an organisation's inventory is deliberately not part of this stage.

Provenance

The registers queried

Which registers are queried, which are not, and why. A source that is not connected here is not quietly passed over — it appears in this list with the reason.

  • Connected

    openFDA — Device Enforcement

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration · US

    United States. Medical device recalls and corrections from the FDA enforcement database, model level.

    Open the register

  • Not connected

    Swissmedic

    Schweizerisches Heilmittelinstitut · CH

    Switzerland. Field safety notices and recalls published by Swissmedic.

    Publication is as web pages and PDFs; no documented machine-readable interface is established. Scraping the site would not be traceably versioned and is therefore not done.

    Open the register

  • Not connected

    EUDAMED

    Europäische Kommission · EU

    European Union. Field safety corrective actions, as far as the database publishes them.

    No documented machine-readable interface is established for the public modules. Until that is clarified, nothing is queried here and nothing is claimed.

    Open the register

Matching against an organisation's device inventory is planned for a later stage and is deliberately not part of this page. What else the platform does is in the knowledge base.