About Pet Drug Reports

Pet Drug Reports is an independent public-data reference site. It counts the adverse event reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine has received for animal drugs (1,357,245 reports since 1987) and presents them by active ingredient, species, breed, reported sign and month. It is not affiliated with FDA, with any drug company, or with any veterinary practice.

What it is for

FDA publishes these reports as bulk files and an interface built for programmers. An owner who wants to know what has been reported for a flea, tick, heartworm, pain or behaviour medication, or a veterinarian who wants the reporting history of an ingredient, has no simple way to look. This site does the counting and sets each number beside the context needed to read it: the wider pool of reports, the species as a whole, the trend, and FDA's own statement of what the data cannot show.

What it leaves out

• Conclusions. The site does not say that a product produced any event, does not rate drugs and does not rank them by outcome. FDA states that these data cannot be used to estimate risk or to compare one product with another, and the pages repeat that wherever ingredients appear side by side.
• Advice. Nothing here says what to give an animal, how much, or whether to stop. Those are questions for a veterinarian who can examine the animal.
• People. FDA's public files contain no owner or reporter identities, and the site does not publish the reporter-type fields either.
• Narratives and lot numbers. Only coded fields are counted.
• Brands in the figures. FDA masks brand and manufacturer names in these records, and the site keeps that masking: statistics are by active ingredient. Approved trade names appear only in a separate Green Book reference list, without counts, and as search aliases. There are no company pages.

Funding

The site is free to use and funded by advertising that is clearly labelled. Advertisers and sponsors have no influence over which ingredients appear or how their reports are presented, and no advertising is placed inside the caveat block. Sponsor placements on species pages, when present, are marked "Sponsored".

Updates and corrections

The site is rebuilt daily and picks up each openFDA release (roughly quarterly) and each monthly Green Book update as it appears. FDA's record is authoritative. Drug sponsors and anyone else who finds a processing error can use the corrections channel; see the methodology for how counts are made.

Contact: contact page.