A neutral reference for animal-health data
What PawLabel is
Every record on this site comes from an official open source: national veterinary-medicine registers, government food-composition tables, public recall enforcement feeds, statutory residue-limit regulations and public surveillance programs. We keep field-level provenance, so each record can point back to the register it came from.
PawLabel adds search, structure and cross-links on top of that data. It does not add opinions: no ratings, no rankings, no “best of”, and never a claim that a product is “safe”.
The data sources
Ingestion is license-gated: a source is only loaded after its terms of use are verified to allow it. The main sources currently live on the site:
Veterinary medicine registers
National food-composition tables
Also aggregated
- FDA enforcement reports and other national recall / safety-alert feeds (pet food & drug recalls)
- US tolerances (21 CFR §556) and EU Regulation 37/2010 maximum residue limits
- NARMS (US) and CIPARS (Canada) antimicrobial-resistance surveillance summaries
- Toxicology reference values from public databases (EPA IRIS, EFSA OpenFoodTox)
- Open Pet Food Facts (ODbL — kept in an isolated open layer) and USDA FoodData Central product data
- RxNorm drug-name normalization (US National Library of Medicine)
How records are handled
Records are ingested as published — normalized in structure, but not editorialized. When a value is missing, the page says “not recorded” instead of guessing. When a product cannot be verified, the checker answers “not enough data”, never “safe”.
Open Database License (ODbL) data from Open Pet Food Facts is stored in a separate open layer and never merged into the closed database. Original registers are linked from each record so you can always verify at the source.
Who runs it
PawLabel is a small, independent project run by a sole operator. It is not owned by, funded by, or affiliated with any pet-food or pharmaceutical manufacturer, and its reference content carries no sponsorships.
Questions, corrections and partnership enquiries are welcome through the contact form — data corrections especially: if a record disagrees with its official register, we want to know.