348 food recalls of firms in Ohio, with the class that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave to the recall. The class is an ordered answer, from low to high risk. Use it to test a decision model on a score question.
Format
A tibble with 348 rows and 8 columns:
- recall_number
Character. The recall number of the FDA.
- event_id
Character. The number of the recall event. One event can have more than one row, when its reasons or classes differ.
- recall_initiation_date
Date. The date on which the firm started the recall.
- city
Character. The city of the recalling firm.
- state
Character. The state of the recalling firm, always
"OH".- product_description
Character. The description of the product, from the first product of the recall in the order of the API.
- reason_for_recall
Character. The reason for the recall, with the whitespace trimmed.
- classification
Ordered factor. The class of the FDA, from low to high risk:
Class III<Class II<Class I. The data have 21 rows of Class III, 175 of Class II and 152 of Class I.
Source
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (n.d.). Food recall enforcement reports [Data set]. openFDA. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://open.fda.gov/apis/food/enforcement/
Filter: recalling firm in Ohio (state:"OH"), all years. The API gave
1,227 records on 2026-10-23.
Details
openFDA data are in the public domain (CC0 1.0, see https://open.fda.gov/terms/).
The classes come from 21 CFR 7.3(m):
Class I: a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
Class II: the use of, or exposure to, the product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.
Class III: the use of, or exposure to, the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.
One recall event often lists many products with the same reason. The data keep one row for each unique event, trimmed reason and class (348 rows from 1,227 records), with the product of the first record in the order of the API. The data keep no firm name, address or postal code. Non-ASCII characters are changed to ASCII, for example an accented letter to its plain letter.
Examples
table(ohio_recalls$classification)
#>
#> Class III Class II Class I
#> 21 175 152
ohio_recalls$reason_for_recall[1]
#> [1] "The firm stated that the product contains undeclared allergens."