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Public Health Trace has 18,426 recall records and 947 outbreak investigations on file connected to Rhode Island, with 24,493 reported illnesses across those outbreak investigations, republished from official FDA, USDA, and CDC sources.
18,426
Recalls distributed here
947
Outbreaks affecting this state
24,493
Reported illnesses
Recalls and outbreaks by year
A bar chart of recall and outbreak counts affecting this state by year, built from the complete yearly totals for this state, not a bounded preview.
Recalls
Outbreaks
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Recalls and outbreaks by year
Year
Recalls
Outbreaks
1980
0
1
1981
0
0
1982
0
0
1983
0
1
1984
0
0
1985
0
0
1986
0
0
1987
0
0
1988
0
0
1989
0
0
1990
0
0
1991
0
1
1992
0
0
1993
0
1
1994
0
0
1995
0
0
1996
0
1
1997
0
0
1998
0
0
1999
0
2
2000
0
0
2001
0
2
2002
0
0
2003
0
1
2004
0
0
2005
0
0
2006
0
3
2007
0
4
2008
0
3
2009
0
3
2010
0
7
2011
0
9
2012
396
79
2013
1,148
73
2014
697
64
2015
1,707
64
2016
1,426
83
2017
1,977
65
2018
1,283
93
2019
2,117
108
2020
1,016
60
2021
869
39
2022
1,766
64
2023
1,305
116
2024
963
0
2025
893
0
2026
863
0
CDC NORS is a historical archive currently available through 2023; later zeros do not mean no outbreaks occurred.
Recall records distributed in Rhode Island
Newest reported records first. Each record's own status (active, terminated, or not reported) is shown on its card.
No disease surveillance trend data has been published for this state.
Data availability
Disease surveillance trends are only shown where CDC's reporting areas have been matched to this state.
A state showing no surveillance data here may still have real recalls and outbreaks above - the gap is
in state-level linkage for weekly case reports specifically, not an indication that nothing was reported.
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This page combines recall records from the FDA and USDA with outbreak investigations and disease surveillance
data from the CDC. It is not a safety ranking or comparison between states -- a higher count here can reflect
more thorough reporting as much as more actual events, and is not a statement that Rhode Island is more or
less safe than any other state.
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