Drug Facts
Drug Facts appears in 29 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Drug Facts appears in 29 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 29
- catalogued products
- #7,222
- usage rank of 247,206
- 4
- named brands represented
- 4%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
What this page can and cannot answer
Audit the co-occurring flags first
51.7% of the linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, making co-occurrence the dominant follow-up question. That figure does not identify Drug Facts as the trigger. Open records such as basic care night time sleep aid; Children's Benadryl; equate pain and fever and inspect which ingredient row carries the caution marker. The 87.6/100 product average is therefore a triage signal for this surrounding formulation set, not an ingredient verdict. Its 4% average label depth helps locate the term when checking the package.
51.7% of linked products contain a separately flagged ingredient
Processing is unusually concentrated here: Group 4 accounts for 24 of 24 NOVA-tagged records. That describes the surrounding products, not the substance. For a useful comparison, hold category and processing level constant, then inspect which named component changes alongside the caution flag; otherwise the product mix will confound the ingredient question.
Next check: open the lowest-scoring linked formulation and locate the exact caution-marked component.
Drug Facts: top-decile catalog footprint (#7,222 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #7,222
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 199 others that also appear in exactly 29 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 4%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 29 products listing it (mean slot 1.8). Drug Facts usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Drug Facts
Products Containing Drug Facts
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 29 indexed products containing Drug Facts:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Drug Facts sits among other busy catalog rows (29 products, mean score 87.6/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Using the Drug Facts evidence
29 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Drug Facts are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Drug Facts to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. See listed products
- Browse another ingredient record and keep the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields in view. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Drug Facts
How should I read safety signals when Drug Facts sits in heavily flagged products? ▼
51.7% of linked products contain at least one separately flagged ingredient, so the first task is locating which row carries the caution marker — not assuming Drug Facts is the trigger. None of that replaces a product-, dose-, allergy-, or person-specific determination.
Which product shelves show up most often with Drug Facts? ▼
Drug Facts ranks in the top decile by product count (#7,222 of 247,206), appearing in 29 indexed products led by Drug. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Drug Facts so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Drug Facts appears in 29 products (#7,222 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Drug Facts). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.