Sending us your notices
If your authority publishes a recall, a suspension or a safety alert, we would rather record it from you than find it later. Three ways to send one are open now. None of them needs an account, and the one that takes least effort is the one we recommend.
All three end in the same place: a person reading what you sent against the notice, before anything appears. There is no route that skips that step, which is the honest description of what we can offer until the portal exists.
It is recorded as coming from you. A notice you confirm to us directly is Tier 2 — confirmed by the authority, not published by them — and the record says so on its face, with who confirmed it and when. It is not recorded as Tier 1, which means you published it on your own channel and we captured it there.
The document is kept. Whatever you attach is stored, hashed and cited by the record as its evidence — up to 4 MB through the API, and any size by email. Regulator links rot, and several in this register already point at third-party hosts; our copy will still be there.
A correction is a correction, never a deletion. If a record here is wrong, tell us and it is superseded: the URL keeps working, the previous state is kept, and the change appears in the public corrections log. We do not quietly remove things, our own mistakes included.
If we cannot use it, you are told why. A submission we set aside keeps its record of having arrived and states the reason. An authority that sent us something and heard nothing back is a failure on our side, not a queue working normally.
Put an alert on the register yourself
A named officer can register a regulatory alert — a recall, a withdrawal, a suspension — and it is on the public register the moment they press the button, at Tier 0. No queue of ours in front of it.
Three required fields: the date you acted, the product as your notice names it, and what you did. Everything else is optional, because real notices are incomplete and a form that demanded completeness would not be used.
News, not only notices
A regulator says more than it recalls. An officer with a channel credential can publish their country’s news in our newsroom — there is a page to write it on — an announcement, a guidance note, a campaign, a warning that is not yet a recall — under your authority’s own name, in the place people already come to for African medicines news.
It goes live when you send it. No editorial queue, for the same reason a Tier 0 record has none: an authority that has decided to say something is not waiting on us. Your name is recorded against it in the audit log you can export, and you can withdraw it yourself — it keeps its address and shows your reason in place of the text, because this site supersedes rather than deletes.
A news item is not a record and never becomes one. If what you have is a regulatory action, send it as a notice instead: that goes on the register at Tier 0, and it is worth considerably more.
Already publishing?
Then the most useful thing you can send is not a notice at all — it is the address of the page where you publish them. We capture from it directly, every notice after this one as well as this one, and those records carry Tier 1: published by you, captured by us, source archived.
Our coverage matrix says what we reach for every African Union member state and where we are blind. If your country’s row is wrong, that is worth an email on its own.
Authorities we do not fetch
Some regulators’ sites ask automated clients not to read them, and we do not. NAFDAC, MCAZ, ARP and AMMPS are not requested at all — by rule rather than by circumstance, and no workaround is built. If you are one of them, a cooperation agreement is the route in, and we would welcome the conversation.
What we will not do
- Publish an allegation, a press report or an inference as a record
- Build a manufacturer’s profile from anything but published decisions
- Alter, translate or tidy your notice text — it is stored verbatim
- Delete a record, including at the request of the party named in it
Write to us
notices@drugeyeafrica.org — a notice, a correction, a channel address, or a key.
We would rather answer a question than have you guess at what we do with what you send.