Source: US Food and Drug Administration
Use Quick Search to perform a broad search for a single word—or combinations of words—pertaining to recalls. For example:
- To retrieve results containing ALL words in the phrase red blood cells enter the search term: red blood cells. Results containing all of these words anywhere in the record, in any order.
- To retrieve results containing the EXACT phrase match for ABC Company Limited, enter the search term in double quotes: “ABC Company Limited”.
- To retrieve results containing EITHER chicken salad OR egg salad, enter the search terms in double quotes: “chicken salad” OR “egg salad”.
- To retrieve results containing fresh frozen plasma AND orange cross blood bank, enter the search terms in double quotes: “fresh frozen plasma” AND “orange cross blood bank”.
- To search by DATE, enter date in the format “mm/dd/yyyy” with double quotes: “08/14/2017“.
Use Keyword Search to isolate results based on predefined search criteria fields (All, Exact, Any, or Exclude). For example:
- All of these Word(s): Search term orange cross blood bank will retrieve results that have all of these words anywhere in the record, in any order.
- Exact Word(s): Search term orange cross blood bank will retrieve results that have the exact phrase: orange cross blood bank.
- Any of these Word(s): Search term orange cross blood bank will retrieve results that have ANY of the words orange or cross or blood or bank or any combination of these words.
- Exclude these Word(s): Search term orange cross blood bank will retrieve results that DO NOT include the words orange or cross or blood or bank or any combination of these words. For a more meaningful result set Exclude these Word(s) field should be used in combination with the other fields (All, Exact, or Any).
- To search by DATE, enter date in the format “mm/dd/yyyy” within double quotes: “08/14/2017″. Note: Exact Word(s) field does not require double quotes for dates: 08/14/2017.
