Using the data
All 755 records are open to read, one by one or a page at a time, with no account and no key. That is not a trial and it will not be withdrawn: a register nobody can cite is not doing its job, and the people this exists for — a pharmacist checking a batch, a regulator confirming what another authority did — should never have to ask anyone’s permission.
Taking a copy of the whole register is a different request, and that one we ask about. It is the work described on the about page: notices read, batch numbers pulled out of PDFs and checked, dates decoded, every source archived.
{
"alert_id": "DEA-KE-2026-0015",
"cc": "KE", "country": "KE", "regulator": "PPB",
"regulator_ref": "REC/2026/015",
"date_published": "2026-07-20",
"product_name": "Flazart",
"inn": null, "manufacturer": null,
"batch_numbers": ["WL25024","WL25025","WL25026"],
"action_type": "recall",
"classification": null,
"defect_category": null,
"verification_tier": 1,
"source_url": "https://web.pharmacyboardkenya.org/...",
"no_published_notice_note": null,
"source_archive_url": null,
"source_archive_held": false,
"source_sha256": null,
"source_retrieved_at": null,
"status": "active", "version": 1,
"publication_tier": "B", "noindex": true
}Nulls are returned, not omitted. A consumer can tell the difference between “the authority did not state this” and “we did not capture it”. Every record carries verification_tier, source_url, no_published_notice_note and source_archive_url, whatever their values.
source_archive_url is null unless the archived copy is on storage you can fetch. A copy on a machine you cannot reach is not evidence, and a path naming somebody’s home directory is not an address; the register does not publish one as though it were. Where a copy exists but is not yet reachable, source_archive_held is true and source_sha256 identifies it exactly.
Verification tiers
- Tier 0 — entered and published by a named officer of the issuing regulator
- Tier 1 — published by the regulator and captured by us
- Tier 2 — confirmed to us by the authority, but not published by them
- Tier 3 — reported by a named credible secondary source
- Tier 4 — reported and unconfirmed, published as an open question
Publication tiers and indexing
A record reaches search engines only with a date, a product name, and either a batch number or a stated reason. Everything else is kept out of them until that is filled in — but it is stored, searchable and readable here from the moment it lands. Nothing is held back; it is only kept from being found by somebody who would read a half-finished record as the whole story.
Also here
- Coverage matrix — what we monitor and where we are blind
- Corrections log — timestamped and public
- The register — every filtered view is a URL