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44% of US food recalls are Class I

44% of United States food recalls are Class I, the class FDA uses when there is a reasonable probability that the product causes serious harm or death: 12,837 of 29,273 classified enforcement records since 2012.

Class share tracks how bad the failures are, where a raw recall count mostly tracks how hard anyone looked.

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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Recomputing the Class I share over openFDA’s food enforcement endpoint returns a value outside 39% to 49%.

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Evidence

Tier Bregulationn = 12837
US Food and Drug Administration: openFDA enforcement reports (food, drug, device)
12,837 Class I food enforcement records, counted in the register on 2026-09-09.
Read 2026-09-09 · Public domain

History

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

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Orbt, "44% of US food recalls are Class I," Orbt Market Index, entry omr:us:food:recall-severity, verified September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--food--recall-severity.

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