BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED

Manufacturer adverse-event records for BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED come from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database via openFDA, refreshed March 2026 - see our methodology. Not medical advice.

FDA MAUDE device safety record · 1996–2026 · thin-book · quiet Death-code · balanced

Volume signature

BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED is a thinner MAUDE footprint

BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED accounts for 4,462 FDA MAUDE reports (#393 of 434, thin-book tercile). Death-coded event_type share is 0.02% (quiet); Injury share 13.2% (balanced).

What the volume reading shows for BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED

The standout signal for BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED is filing volume: 4,462 adverse-event reports in FDA MAUDE (#393 of 434, thin-book). Death-coded event_type share sits at 0.02% (quiet).

As a thinner-book manufacturer, a handful of device families can swing the totals; open the device table rather than reading the company headline alone. Event_type counts are not the same population as Patient Outcomes.

Reports span 20 device types, led in this extract by Malfunction at 3,866 (86.6% of event_type total). Peak single-year volume reaches 2,566 reports across 24 years. These are raw FDA submissions, not adjudicated findings. Snapshot . Verify current communications on the FDA MDR page.

4,462
Total Reports
1
Event-type Death
589
Injury Reports
20
Device Types

Event Types

Malfunction 3,866 (86.6%)
Injury 589 (13.2%)
4 (0.1%)
Other 2 (0.0%)
Death 1 (0.0%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

3,882 (86.1%)
Other 372 (8.2%)
Required Intervention 185 (4.1%)
R 23 (0.5%)
Hospitalization 18 (0.4%)
S 13 (0.3%)
O 9 (0.2%)
H 3 (0.1%)
Disability 3 (0.1%)
Life Threatening 2 (0.0%)

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 1
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 1
01
2001: 3
02
2002: 1
03
2003: 5
04
2004: 32
05
2005: 9
06
2006: 14
07
2007: 3
14
2014: 5
15
2015: 1,205
16
2016: 400
17
2017: 2,566
18
2018: 47
19
2019: 22
20
2020: 16
21
2021: 25
22
2022: 9
23
2023: 18
24
2024: 22
25
2025: 38
26
2026: 18