About Krolda

Krolda is a reference site for food safety quality teams and a product in early access. The reference side reads the public record, the FDA’s enforcement reports, title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations and the CDC’s outbreak data, and organises it by the questions a quality director actually asks. This page says where every figure comes from, what Krolda adds, and what it does not claim.

Who runs it

Krolda is built by a small independent team with a background in food safety data and compliance software. It is not affiliated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or any certification scheme owner or certification body, and it holds no accreditation from any of them. Where a page names BRCGS, FSSC 22000, IFS, SQF or ISO, it describes those standards in its own words and reproduces none of their text.

Corrections, questions about a figure, and requests to remove or amend something go to krolda@vcorp.co. A factual error in Krolda’s own writing is corrected on the page. An error in a source record is reported to the source and noted, because Krolda does not edit government records.

Where the data comes from

Every number on this site can be traced to one of four public sources, each pulled by a script whose date the pages carry. All four are works of the United States government and are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. 105, which is why they can be reproduced here in full and why the same cannot be done for a private standard.

FDA food enforcement reports

29,386 recall records from 2012 to 2026, from the openFDA API. Last updated 2026-09-02. Browse

Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations

2,681 sections across 86 food-safety parts, from the eCFR, current as of 2026-09-10. Browse

CDC National Outbreak Reporting System

9,038 foodborne outbreaks, 2012 to 2023, with illnesses, hospitalisations and deaths. Read 2026-09-15. Browse

FDA guidance and rule pages

The FDA's own pages on each pathogen, on allergen labelling and on each FSMA rule, quoted verbatim. Read 2026-09-16, and re-checked against the source on every pull. Browse

What Krolda adds, and what it does not claim

The FDA publishes an enforcement report as free text: a firm, a product, a reason. Krolda adds two things to each record. A hazard classification, which reads the reason line against a fixed set of patterns and files the record under Listeria, undeclared allergen, foreign material and so on; and a clause mapping, which says where in 21 CFR part 117, FSSC 22000 or IFS Food the control for that hazard sits. Both are Krolda’s reading and neither is an FDA determination. A record that names two hazards appears under both, and every page that counts records says so where it matters.

The comparisons on hazard, category, year and state pages, the “what is different about these records” sections, are arithmetic over the corpus and are stated as such. The outbreak figures come from a different agency, cover different years and count people rather than products, and no page joins the two into a single claim. Where the FDA or the CDC is quoted, the words are theirs, in quotation marks, with the page they came from and the date it was read.

Krolda does not claim that a recall caused or prevented an outbreak, that a firm with many records is a worse firm than one with few, or that any standard is the one a site should hold. It states which issue of each standard it maps and the date that was checked, and it links the owner for the current one.

Which pages ask to be found

The site generates a page for every recall record, every firm, every state, every year and every section of the regulation, because somebody holding a package or a clause reference needs to land on exactly that one. Most of those pages are near-duplicates of their neighbours by construction, and Krolda does not ask search engines to index them: a page is marked for indexing only when what it says could not have been written about any other entity, measured rather than assumed, and the sitemap submits exactly those pages and no others. The pages that are written rather than generated, the 9 standards, the 10 FSMA rules and the hub pages, are always indexed.

The product

Krolda the product maps supplier documents, certificates of analysis, specifications, certificates and audit reports, to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR part 117, routes a corrective action when the evidence is missing, and keeps the trail an auditor asks for. It is in early access, and the early access page says what that means today. Nothing on the reference side of the site depends on it.

Questions

Is Krolda affiliated with the FDA?

No. Krolda is an independent site. The recall records, the text of 21 CFR and the quoted guidance are published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain, and the outbreak figures by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Krolda reproduces them with attribution and adds its own classification and commentary, which are not FDA determinations.

How current is the recall data?

The openFDA food enforcement dataset on this site was last updated on 2026-09-02 and holds 29,386 records. Every page that counts records states that date. The FDA publishes new enforcement reports weekly, so a recall announced this week may not yet appear here; the FDA's own recall pages are always the current source.

How do I report an error on a page?

Write to krolda@vcorp.co with the page address and what is wrong. A factual error in something Krolda wrote is corrected on the page; an error in a source record is reported to the source and noted, since Krolda does not edit government records.