Description

A dataset for dietary supplement adverse event reports from 2012 containing CAERS product and adverse event reports as reported to the FDA. This particular dataset contains only products which were reported to be dietary supplements (industry code 54) reported in the year 2012. and includes 2874 unique product names and 1328 unique adverse events. There are a total of 3356 unique reports. In addition, there is also one stratification variable, indicating whether the patient is male or female

Usage

Format

A data frame with 20156 rows and 4 variables:

id

Identification number

var1

Name of the product

var2

Name of the symptom/event category

strat1

Gender of the patient associated with report

Details

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

Source

CFSAN Adverse Event Reporting System (FDA Center for Food Safety and Nutrition)

https://www.fda.gov/Food/ComplianceEnforcement

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/ComplianceEnforcement/UCM494019.pdf