Data coverage
What you need in order to judge how far the trend figures can be trusted. It shows plainly what we collected, from which agencies, how much, and how much the volume differs by year.
Dates in the figures below are publication dates — except for Health Canada inspections, where the source gives no publication date and the inspection date is used instead. Open a document to see both its inspection date and its publication date.
The volume we hold differs more than tenfold between years, so compare years only by share (%), never by count. Comparing counts would compare our collection history, not regulatory activity.
Source mix
Which agency's documents the findings come from. The number of findings per document differs by source (inspection reports hold several, non-compliance reports usually one), so this mix reflects document format as much as regulatory intensity.
Documents published per year
The number of findings from documents dated that year — that is, how much material we hold per year. A tall bar means many documents were published that year, not that findings increased that year.
The differences between years also reflect how far back each source goes — Health Canada inspections cover 2021 onwards only, and Warning Letters only since collection began, so earlier years are a lower bound rather than the true figure.
Category mix, all time
A ranking of everything collected since 2016. It shows which areas our material concentrates in, not the recent trend — to see what is being cited now, pick an agency under Trends.
Inspections outside vs inside the US
FDA 483s only: inspections outside the US and inside the US are each set to 100% and compared — the US count is far larger, so absolute numbers cannot be compared.
"Outside the US" means every country other than the US; the mix of countries is uneven.
Share by year
Each year is set to 100% to show which areas the year's findings concentrated in. The volume of documents we hold differs greatly from year to year, so raw counts cannot be compared — the darker the colour, the larger that area's share in that year.
Companies with the most documents
This is not a ranking of quality. Companies with more published documents in our collection appear higher — those inspected several times or with long documents rise, because one document holds many findings. To see a specific company's history, use Company lookup rather than this list.
