About Device Safety Index

Device Safety Index is a small, independent project that makes public U.S. FDA medical device safety data easier to look up.

The FDA publishes three useful databases about medical devices: a registry of devices and their identifiers, a database of adverse event reports, and a list of recalls. They live on separate government websites, use different search screens, and are hard to connect to one specific device. We combine them so that each device has one page showing its registration details, the reports that name it, and the recalls that list it.

What we are not

• We are not the FDA and are not affiliated with or endorsed by the FDA, any government agency or any device manufacturer.
• We are not doctors, and nothing on this site is medical advice. If you are worried about a device, talk to your healthcare provider and do not stop using a prescribed device on your own.
• We do not accept payment from manufacturers or anyone else to add, remove, change or rank information. If the site ever shows advertising to cover its costs, ads will never affect the data.

Where the data comes from

All device, report and recall data comes from the FDA's public datasets, downloaded in bulk through openFDA. We do not write, edit or add to the reports. The summary sentences on each device page are generated automatically from the numbers in the data. Some pages also show a short "Quick summary" written by an AI model from the same FDA records shown on the page; every number in it is checked automatically against the data before it is published, and it is always labelled. Read exactly how the data is matched and counted.

The site currently covers 198,611 devices and 11,324,055 adverse event reports linked to them. The data was last rebuilt on Oct 13, 2026, from FDA files dated Oct 13, 2026.

Corrections and questions

If you spot a mistake — for example a report or recall attached to the wrong device — please tell us. We check every message. We can fix how data is matched or displayed, but we cannot change the content of FDA records themselves; those corrections have to go to the FDA or the reporting manufacturer.