Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §884.5470 (Obstetrics/Gynecology panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented MID-BOOK · MAUDE
#195 of 1000 · 11,865 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 11,865 reports
- RANK #195 of 1000
- DEATH 13 death-typed
- INJ 1,086 injury-typed
- MALF 10,654 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2019: 3,034
- PHOTO Catheter
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Coronary, Atherectomy (42 report gap)
Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented sits #195 of 1000 among tracked device types with 11,865 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented carries 89.8% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 25.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 9.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-21.1 pp)
- MALF 89.8% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+25.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Material Separation is 43% of coded problems · Top event location I is 54% of location-tagged rows .
Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Intracranial…
Intracranial Aneurysm Flow Diverter
11,926 reports
- Tampon (this)
Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented
11,865 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Coronary, Atherectomy
11,823 reports
- System
System, Hemodynamic, Implantable
11,799 reports
- Mesh
Mesh, Surgical, Synthetic, Urogynecologic, For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Transvaginally Placed
11,654 reports
- Mesh, Surgical
Mesh, Surgical
11,595 reports
What this shows Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented carries 11,865 MAUDE reports, ranked #195 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (454) held close to the prior two-year average of 618.
Related Entities for Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (11,865 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (13 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Tampon, Menstrual, Unscented; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.