How are the potential duplicates automatically suggested?

When you click Review Duplicates on the Recall Notices page, the application compares all the notices with the same document reference number and manufacturer. It identifies and retains one recall notice and marks all other matching notices as potential duplicates.

Here's how that recall notice to be retained is identified:

• Recall notice that has the earliest initiation date is retained.

• If there is more than one recall notice with the same initiation date, then the recall notice initiated by the regulatory authority is retained.

• If you have already started locating items for a notice, and the locate process is either in progress or completed, then that recall notice is retained.