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Recalls Watch

Where the recall data comes from

Three public data services of US agencies, read by one collector and stored with the time of the collection. This page lists what each one covers, what is left out and how fresh the catalog is.

Build snapshot. Collected , once, when this site was built. It is not a live feed.

Sources of the catalog and their state in the last collection
AgencyWhat is collectedIn the catalogNewest record
CPSCU.S. Consumer Product Safety CommissionRecalls of consumer products: toys, nursery, furniture, appliances, electronics, sports and outdoor gear.SaferProducts.gov recall service. The range is requested more than once and the answers are joined by recall number, because the service was seen returning different cut-off dates for the same request. CPSC publishes most recalls on Thursdays.103 notices
FDAU.S. Food and Drug AdministrationFood and drug recalls, from the weekly enforcement reports. One notice per recall event, with every product of the event inside.openFDA enforcement endpoints for food and drug. Released by FDA under CC0. openFDA is updated once a week. A recall announced in a press release can take days to appear.133 notices
NHTSANational Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationSafety recall campaigns of 19 common models, model years 2021 to 2024. Campaigns received in the last 365 days enter the search; older ones stay on the vehicle pages.NHTSA recall service by make, model and model year. The vehicle, VIN and recall-number lookups call the same service from your browser, for any vehicle. Manufacturers file campaigns throughout the week.36 notices

openFDA reports its own last update as September 23, 2026.

A source is flagged here when a collection fails or when its newest record is older than 10 days (CPSC), 16 days (FDA) or 45 days (NHTSA). None is flagged in this collection.

What is not collected, and where to look

How a record becomes a notice

Each agency describes a recall with different fields. The collector maps them to one shape: the agency and its number, the date, a title, the firm, the products, the hazard, the remedy, photos and the link to the official notice. A record that lacks the hazard text or the official link is left out instead of being shown incomplete.

What is copied and what is composed

Hazard, remedy, product description, lot codes, units, contact and photo captions are copied from the record. The only change is that runs of spaces and line breaks become a single space. List pages show the start of the hazard text, cut at a word and ending with an ellipsis; the full text is on the page of the notice.

Three things are added by this site and labelled as such. FDA and NHTSA records have no title, so one is composed from the firm and the first product, or from the vehicle and the component. The category (children’s products, electronics and appliances, home and outdoor) is assigned from words in the CPSC title and product type. And FDA records have no instruction for consumers, so those notices carry a short note from this site telling you to compare lot codes.

Photos

Product photos appear only on CPSC notices and are the agency’s own, loaded from cpsc.gov with a credit. No photo of a recalled product on this site is generated or taken from another source. Illustrations elsewhere on the site show no real product.

Take the data with you

The catalog is one JSON file and the newest notices are an RSS feed: /data/recalls.json and /feed/recalls.xml. openFDA data is released under CC0 (opens in a new tab), and FDA asks that this be repeated: do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care.

Notices by week

Or go back to the search.

Questions and answers

How often is the data collected?

The collector is built to run every four hours on the server, one agency per run, and store its result: CPSC is read twice a day, and the FDA reports and each monitored vehicle once a day. A page that says “build snapshot” was collected once, when the site was built, and shows that time. Vehicle and recall-number lookups do not depend on the collector: they ask the agency at the moment you search.

Do you change the text of the recalls?

No. Hazard, remedy, description, lot codes and contact are copied from the record; only repeated spaces and line breaks are collapsed. List pages show the beginning of the hazard text, cut at a word and marked with an ellipsis.

Why are meat and poultry recalls missing?

They belong to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, not to the FDA. Its data service refused automated requests when this site was built, so it is not collected yet. The Sources page links to the FSIS recall page.

May I reuse the data?

The records are public US government information. openFDA data is released under CC0. The catalog of this site is available as a JSON file and as an RSS feed, linked on the Sources page.

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