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Drug defect recalls
Drug potency, contamination, mislabeling or dosage defects
RecallDB classifies 35,200 official recalls under drug defect, 27.6% of all 127,516 hazard rows (unmapped ones included) and the #1 hazard bucket of 11. The bucket is defined as: Drug potency, contamination, mislabeling or dosage defects.
In the free 200-row sample, this hazard appears in rows issued by FDA (23), NHTSA (2). Agency free text is kept verbatim in raw_hazard_texts; the normalized key is drug_defect.
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