caers: Dietary supplement reports

In openEBGM: EBGM Disproportionality Scores for Adverse Event Data Mining

Dietary supplement reports

Description

A small subset of data from the Human Foods Complaint System (HFCS) database (formerly CAERS). This dataset contains only reports received in 2025 for dietary supplement products (industry/product code 54).

Usage

caers

Format

A data frame with 15,204 rows and 4 columns:

id

The unique number that identifies each case.

strat1

The sex of the individual reported to have experienced the adverse event.

var1

The verbatim brands and/or product names indicated to have been used by the consumer reported to have experienced the adverse event. An adverse event report may specify consumption of a single product or multiple products.

var2

The symptom(s) experienced by the injured consumer as specified by the reporter and coded by FDA according to the Medical Data Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA). Each adverse event report may indicate one or more symptoms.

Details

Further details about the data can be found using the links below.

Source

Human Foods Complaint System (HFCS)

https://www.fda.gov/food/compliance-enforcement-food/human-foods-complaint-system-hfcs

https://www.fda.gov/media/97035/download

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