Recorded changes
Every change we have recorded
One line per manufacturer status change we observed, dated by the day we saw it in the feed rather than the day it happened. This log is the site’s track record: it is the reason to believe the daily check actually runs.
Our log
14 status changes recorded so far
The FDA’s own record of change
42 listings were added to the shortage database in the last 30 days
Separate from our log, and worth keeping separate. Every listing carries the FDA’s own posting date and its own label for the last edit, so this much history exists from day one — but a posting date says a shortage began, not that a manufacturer’s status moved. Only the comparison above can say that.
Read this one carefully. It counts listings first posted in each month that are still listed today. A shortage that started in one of those months and has since ended is not in the feed at all, so it cannot be counted — the older months are undercounted by exactly the ones that got better. It is a picture of what is still open, not of everything that ever happened.
Longest-running shortages
Time since the FDA first posted the shortage, for products still listed today. Atropine has been listed since 2012.
Most recently added to the shortage list
Dated by the earliest FDA posting for that product, so a single manufacturer joining a long-running shortage does not make the product look new.
What will appear here
Four kinds of entry. A manufacturer moving between available, limited and unavailable for a strength. A listing appearing in the feed for the first time. A listing disappearing, which we report as no longer listed by FDA and never as resolved. And a product being marked to be discontinued, which is the manufacturer signalling it intends to stop making it.
Reverifications do not appear. When a manufacturer confirms an unchanged status the FDA updates the record’s date without changing what it says; treating that as news would fill this log with noise and fill inboxes with pointless email.
How to read an entry
Each line names the product and strength, the manufacturer, and what its status became. Following the link opens that strength’s page, where the full list of manufacturers and their package codes lives. A single strength can appear several times on one day if more than one manufacturer moved.
Why the dates are ours, not the FDA’s
Each entry is dated by the day we observed it in the feed. A manufacturer might have reported a change days earlier, and the record’s own update date sometimes does not move when the availability text does. Dating by observation is the only claim we can actually stand behind, so it is the one we make.
Built from the FDA drug shortage database, fetched 2026-08-26; the feed’s own last update was 2026-08-25. Snapshot 021d4dfd5d742d95. You can check us against the FDA source, and read what we get wrong.