Dating back to 1984, the database contains currently more than 277,000 records and is updated monthly. The information relates to the U.S. regulation of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including listings of approved products, experience reports for devices, documentation of the approval process for specific products, and recall and regulatory action documentation. The database also contains the complete text of other FDA documentation as well as unpublished U.S. FDA documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, e.g. Advisory Committee minutes, industry and FDA correspondence. More than 6,500 journals are regularly scanned and more than 4,500 of these are completely abstracted. Language of the database is French, with titles in English.
Descriptors are available in English, French, and Spanish.
Coverage of the database spans the period 1984 to date. Nearly all textual information of the database is searchable and displayable in both English and German. All textual information is searchable and displayable in English, French, and German. Dating from 1996 to the present, it contains more than 180,000 records and is updated weekly. Nearly all textual information is searchable and displayable in both English and German.