MedWatch

Founded in 1993, this system of voluntary reporting allows such information to be shared with the medical community or the general public.

Reporting can be conducted online,[3] by phone, or by submitting the MedWatch 3500 form by mail or fax.

[4] The MedWatch system is intended to detect safety hazard signals for medical products.

Important safety information is disseminated to the medical community and the general public via the MedWatch web site.

[6] Raw data from the MedWatch system, together with adverse drug reaction reports from manufacturers as required by regulation, are part of a public database.