Data freshness, limitations, and corrections
Three questions come up often enough to deserve one short answer each, with a link to the full detail rather than repeating it here.
How fresh is this data?
Every detail page shows its own "Data last retrieved" date. Sources with a confirmed live feed are checked against a 48-hour staleness threshold; see methodology for the full refresh schedule and what "provisional" means for a record still being updated by its source.
What are the known gaps?
Some fields (like recall lot codes) aren't captured by every importer yet, and a few sources aren't connected yet at all. Public Health Trace shows these honestly as missing rather than blank or invented -- see methodology's known limitations section for the current, specific list, and data sources for per-source status.
Found an error?
See our corrections policy for how to report it and what happens next -- whether the issue is in how Public Health Trace imported the data, or in the original source record itself.