Regulatory enforcement intelligence
Every field, cited to the character it came from.
One verified corpus of regulatory enforcement across the United States, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom — built so that every assertion can be traced back to the document that supports it.
United States Canada European Union United Kingdom
Specimen record Verified
- Company
- Meridian Vale Laboratories, Inc.
- Regulator
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Date issued
- Authorities
- 21 CFR 211.192
- Status
- Open — no close-out on file
“Your firm failed to thoroughly investigate any unexplained discrepancy or failure of a batch to meet any of its specifications.”
Archived source, page 3, characters 2,104–2,361 · Re-verified 2026-08-04, 06:14 UTC
01 — The problem
Public does not mean usable
Enforcement actions are public documents. That is not the same as being able to rely on them.
Each agency publishes in its own format, on its own schedule, on websites that change without notice. A search that answered a question last quarter can answer it differently today, and nothing tells you what changed.
Static exports go stale, and they go stale silently. One widely used FDA data export still returns HTTP 200 and well-formed JSON — and the most recent warning letter in it is dated November 2021. If your due diligence ran against that export, it cleared companies the agency has since written to.
Aggregators paraphrase. A record that reads “failed to maintain adequate procedures” might quote the letter, summarise it, or blend it with boilerplate — and there is no way to tell which. When the summary is the product, the source becomes unreachable.
The stale export, checked
- Response
- 200 OK, well-formed JSON
- Newest letter in payload
- November 2021
- Staleness signalled
- None — no error, no warning, no date on the envelope
Checked 2026-08-06. A caller has no way to know the data stopped four years ago.
An assertion you cannot check is not evidence. It is a rumour with good typography.
Cited Record answers the same question a different way: every field it publishes points at a position in a document it has archived, and the position still resolves after the agency changes the page.
02 — Method
How a record earns the word “verified”
Every record passes the same four steps, at first ingest and again at every re-check. A record that fails any step is held back rather than published.
- Deterministic extraction.
- Fixed selectors and patterns pull structured fields from the source document. Nothing is guessed, and nothing is inferred from context.
- Triangulation.
- Dates, reference numbers and recipients are cross-checked between the agency’s own index and the document itself. Where the two disagree, the record is flagged, not averaged.
- Independent audit.
- A separate pass re-reads the original document without seeing the first pass’s output. Where the two disagree, the record is held for review rather than published.
- Anchored citation.
- Every published field records the exact character offsets it came from in the archived source. If a field cannot be anchored to the document, it is not published at all.
03 — Specimen
A record, in full
One record as it appears in the product. The company and the reference number are invented for this page; the structure, the excerpt and the citation are not.
Specimen
- Company
- Meridian Vale Laboratories, Inc.
- Date issued
- Issuing office
- Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Reference
- CMS 684213
- Subject
- Current Good Manufacturing Practice violations — finished pharmaceuticals
- Cited authorities
- 21 U.S.C. § 351(a)(2)(B); 21 CFR parts 210–211
- Status
- Open — no close-out letter on file
- Excerpt
-
“Your firm failed to thoroughly investigate any unexplained discrepancy or failure of a batch or any of its components to meet any of its specifications, whether or not the batch has already been distributed.”
Archived source, page 3, characters 2,104–2,361 · Cited authority 21 CFR 211.192
Provenance
- Last verified
- 2026-08-04, 06:14 UTC
- Source archived
- 2025-11-20, 17:02 UTC
- Archive integrity
- Byte-for-byte, SHA-256 on file
- Citation anchor
- Page 3, characters 2,104–2,361
- Re-check interval
- 6 hours
The citation resolves against our archive rather than against the agency’s website, so it survives the agency changing or withdrawing the page.
04 — Coverage
The coverage programme
Eighty-one regulators across four jurisdictions, sequenced by how their documents are published: structured feeds first, then HTML, then scanned paper.
United States 28
- FDA
- OSHA
- EPA
- SEC
- FINRA
- CFTC
- FTC
- CFPB
- OCC
- Federal Reserve
- FDIC
- OFAC
- NHTSA
- FAA
- FERC
- HHS Office for Civil Rights
- CPSC
- USDA FSIS
- ITC
- CMS
- Department of Labor
- PHMSA
- NRC
- TSA
- MSHA
- FMCSA
- Bureau of Industry and Security
- EEOC
European Union 27
- DG Competition
- EBA
- ESMA
- EIOPA
- EMA
- ECB banking supervision
- Safety Gate
- BaFin
- Bundeskartellamt
- BfDI
- Umweltbundesamt
- Autorité des marchés financiers
- Autorité de la concurrence
- CNIL
- ANSM
- CNMV
- Banco de España
- AEPD
- CNMC
- AEMPS
- CONSOB
- AGCM
- Garante
- Data Protection Commission
- AFM
- ACM
- FINMA
Canada 13
- Competition Bureau
- OSFI
- Health Canada
- Environment Canada
- Ontario Securities Commission
- BC Securities Commission
- Autorité des marchés financiers
- CRTC
- Privacy Commissioner
- Transport Canada
- Transportation Safety Board
- CFIA
- CNSC
United Kingdom 13
- FCA
- CMA
- ICO
- HSE
- Environment Agency
- PRA
- MHRA
- Companies House
- Gambling Commission
- Ofgem
- Ofcom
- FRC
- Food Standards Agency
Cited Record is in build. FDA warning letters are live and re-checked every six hours; the remaining regulators are being brought online in the order shown, structured feeds first.
A regulator is marked live only once its records are complete and verified. We would rather show you the map and tell you where we are on it than announce coverage we do not yet have.
05 — Use
Where a citation is the difference
The people who need this are the people who have to defend what they found, to someone who can check.
Counterparty and supplier review
Screen a company across four jurisdictions and produce a file that shows the underlying document for every hit, with the date it was last verified against the agency.
Monitoring and change detection
Know when a matter is opened, closed out or withdrawn, and know it from the agency’s own document rather than from a summary of it.
Investigation and reporting
Work from a corpus where every field carries its provenance, so a finding can be published with the citation already attached.
06 — Freshness
Records that admit what they know
A data set that hides its own gaps is worse than one that has none, because you cannot plan around a gap you cannot see.
Every record carries the time of its last successful verification, and that time is shown with the record — not buried in a changelog. Records are re-checked on a schedule. When an agency closes a matter out or withdraws it, the record changes to say so.
When verification fails, the record is marked unverified. It is not presented as current, and it is not quietly removed.
What each record states
- Last verified
- Timestamp of the last successful check against the source
- Verification state
- Verified, or unverified and still visible
- Source archive
- Retained, so the citation resolves after the page comes down
07 — Access
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