FDA Report Targets Compliance, Enforcement Data

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a report outlining eight proposals to make its “publicly available compliance and enforcement data more accessible and user-friendly.” Under the initiatives described in the report, FDA will explore different ways to (i) “improve data quality and facilitate more timely data disclosure”; (ii) expedite error reporting; (iii) “present its compliance and enforcement data graphically and better utilize mobile web applications”; (iv) “better integrate its compliance and enforcement data”; (v) improve the search capabilities of the inspections database; (vi) post additional data compilations or analysis; (vii) “better utilize social media”; and (viii) “provide appropriate context for the compliance and enforcement data that it discloses.” See Federal Register, February 1, 2012.