Can block a launchUnited StatesFood & snacks

US food recalls: microbiological leads

Microbiological is the reason given for 49% of United States food recalls, ahead of undeclared allergen at 31%: 12,319 of 25,042 enforcement records whose stated reason could be classified. The wording is FDA’s; the grouping is ours and is reproducible from the patterns in src/openfda.mjs.

It is the failure most likely to end a US launch, named by the agency that ends them.

80 of a possible 90Tier B, systematic first-party observation. Nothing at this tier is allowed past 90, however good it looks.

Verified September 9, 2026Rechecked every 180 days, next by March 8, 2027.

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Held since January 1, 2012What repeatedly happened when brands acted. The earliest date we are willing to say this held. It may well have been true before that; we do not backdate a record past the evidence we have read. Supported, version 1.

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Re-running the same patterns over openFDA’s food enforcement endpoint returns a different leading reason, or the same one outside 44% to 54%.

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Evidence

Tier Bregulationn = 12319
US Food and Drug Administration: openFDA enforcement reports (food, drug, device)
12,319 openFDA food enforcement records in this bucket, counted in the register on 2026-09-09.
Read 2026-09-09 · Public domain

History

v1createdAugust 10, 2026
Derived from the us-recall-reason family on 2026-08-10.

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“US food recalls: microbiological leads”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:us:food:recall-reason, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--food--recall-reason. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129

Orbt, "US food recalls: microbiological leads," Orbt Market Index, entry omr:us:food:recall-reason, verified September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--food--recall-reason.

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