Reports that FDA received each year, 2014 to 2025
Finding from the reports that FDA received through 26 Jun 2026
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FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine publishes these words. Source: Adverse Event Reports for Animal Drugs and Devices, read on . The data have the reports that FDA received through .
FDA received 77,103 adverse event reports for animal drugs in 2025, the last full year in the data.
Reports fell by 5.1% from 2024 to 2025.
Reports about dogs were 70.2% of the reports of 2025, and 76.8% of the reports of 2014.
Of the full years in the table, 2024 had the largest number of reports: 81,214.
Years, newest first
| Year | Reports | Change from the year before | Dogs | Cats | Horses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026, January to June | 35,980 | n/a | 72.7% | 15.8% | 1.3% |
| 2025 | 77,103 | -5.1% | 70.2% | 16.4% | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 81,214 | +24.2% | 69.9% | 17.8% | 1% |
| 2023 | 65,371 | +11.4% | 69.9% | 16.7% | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 58,692 | -7.1% | 74.8% | 10.9% | 1.1% |
| 2021 | 63,159 | -7.6% | 75.1% | 9.8% | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 68,367 | -5.7% | 74.3% | 9.8% | 1% |
| 2019 | 72,492 | +2.0% | 72.7% | 10.2% | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 71,103 | -7.8% | 74.2% | 10.2% | 0.8% |
| 2017 | 77,081 | +4.3% | 75.6% | 9.6% | 0.8% |
| 2016 | 73,904 | +3.8% | 77% | 8.7% | 0.9% |
| 2015 | 71,208 | +4.9% | 77.4% | 8.6% | 1.1% |
| 2014 | 67,864 | n/a | 76.8% | 8.9% | 0.9% |
In earlier editions
- October 2026: the first row was 2026, January to June (35,980).
How the figures were made
The year is the year in which FDA received the report, not the year of the event. The newest year is not complete. FDA says that a report can take 3 to 6 months to reach the public data. The newest months can get more reports in a later update.
A change from a year with fewer than 20 reports is shown as n/a. The other reports are about other species, or give no species.
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Pet Drug Reports. Reports that FDA received each year, 2014 to 2025. https://petdrugreports.com/findings/reports-by-year/ Source: FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event reports, export of . Reports received through .
Where the data come from
The counts come from the openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event files, export of 30 Oct 2026. The files have the reports that the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine received through 26 Jun 2026. The files mask brand and manufacturer names. The site counts a drug by the active ingredients that each record gives, and gives no count to a brand, an application or a company. Ingredient names and the lists of approved products follow the FDA Green Book of 2 Nov 2026.
The site does not publish report text, lot numbers or details of a reporter. FDA's record is the authority. See how the site counts reports, the data sources and the corrections page.