Is my medication recalled? How do I check?

Search the FDA's official recall listings at fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts, free. Search by the drug's name — brand or generic. The FDA publishes every drug recall and enforcement report, including which lot numbers are affected.

Will my pharmacy tell me if my medication is recalled?

Sometimes, but not reliably — pharmacies typically contact patients only for the most serious class of recalls, and lot-level recalls often go unannounced to individual patients. Checking the FDA database directly, or having a service watch it for your exact medications, closes that gap.

Straight answer

Is my medication recalled?

Check it right now, free:

Go to the FDA's official recall page: fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts.
Search the name of your medication — brand name or generic, either works.
If it's recalled, the listing names the affected lot numbers — check them against the bottle or box you actually have. A recall often covers specific lots, not every unit of the drug.

The gap nobody warns you about

Pharmacies typically call patients only for the most serious recalls. Lot-level recalls and enforcement reports mostly reach wholesalers and pharmacists, not the person with the bottle in their cabinet. The FDA publishes everything — but only if you keep looking.

What we watch: the FDA's drug enforcement feed — the same database behind the official recall page, updated in daily batches. Dusklamp's Recall Lookout matches every new report against the medication names you gave us, by name, every day.

Source: open.fda.gov drug enforcement reports — the FDA's own public API. Named on every page we make.

Tell us your meds once — we check every day

You tell us medication names — that's all. No dosages, no pharmacy login, no health records, no account. We check the FDA feed daily (plus NHTSA for your car and CPSC for household products, if you want) and tap you on the shoulder only when a new report matches.

Ask us to watch your medications

No sign-up — you describe what to watch, you get a private link, and that link is your whole account.

Sources named on this page: fda.gov and open.fda.gov (drug recalls and enforcement reports), nhtsa.gov (vehicle recalls), saferproducts.gov (household products). All federal, all free. · Dusklamp home