US Product Recalls Monitor – CPSC, FDA & NHTSA Recall Alerts

Get every US product recall in one feed: consumer products (CPSC), food, drugs and medical devices (FDA enforcement reports), vehicles, tires, car seats and equipment (NHTSA). The Actor reads the official government APIs, normalizes every record to one schema and lets you filter by date, keyword, firm, FDA class and state. Turn on Only new recalls and schedule it for a daily recall alert feed.

No API key, no login, no browser. $1 per 1,000 recalls.

Who uses it

• Retailers, marketplaces and Amazon/eBay sellers – check listings and inventory against new recalls (keywords, brands, UPCs).
• Brands and manufacturers – monitor competitors' and suppliers' recalls in your category.
• Compliance, QA and regulatory teams – daily Class I/II recall alerts for your products, ingredients or states.
• Journalists and researchers – recall trends by agency, hazard, firm and month.
• Consumer, food-safety and car apps – a clean recall feed without integrating four different APIs.
• AI agents – one tool call answers "were there any recalls of X recently?"

Sources

Source	Agency	Covers	Date used
cpsc	Consumer Product Safety Commission	toys, appliances, furniture, e-bikes, kids' products…	recall date
fda-food	FDA	food, beverages, supplements, cosmetics	Enforcement Report date
fda-drug	FDA	prescription and OTC drugs	Enforcement Report date
fda-device	FDA	medical devices	Enforcement Report date
nhtsa	NHTSA	vehicles, tires, child seats, equipment	report received date

Input examples

All recalls from the last 7 days (all agencies):

{ "withinDays": 7 }

Daily alert: Class I food recalls mentioning allergens or listeria, sold in California:

{
  "agencies": ["fda-food", "cpsc"],
  "withinDays": 3,
  "keywords": ["listeria", "undeclared", "salmonella", "e. coli"],
  "classifications": ["Class I"],
  "states": ["CA"],
  "onlyNew": true
}

Vehicle recalls for one manufacturer this year:

{ "agencies": ["nhtsa"], "after": "2026-01-01", "firm": "Ford" }

Children's product recalls (CPSC):

{ "agencies": ["cpsc"], "withinDays": 90, "keywords": ["child", "infant", "toy", "crib", "stroller"] }

Output

Every recall has the same core fields (agency, recallId, recallDate, title, product, description, hazard, classification, firm, distribution, states, quantity, remedy, status, url, images, sourceIds) plus agency-specific extras. Empty fields are omitted.

{
  "agency": "CPSC",
  "category": "Consumer products",
  "recallId": "27024",
  "recallDate": "2026-10-15",
  "title": "3M Company Recalls Scotch™ Thermal Laminators Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire Hazard",
  "product": "Scotch™ Thermal Laminators",
  "hazard": "The recalled thermal laminators can overheat, posing a fire hazard.",
  "firm": "3M Company, of St. Paul, Minnesota",
  "retailers": ["Sold Online At:\nAmazon.com from June 2024 through September 2026 for between $44 and $56."],
  "quantity": "About 53,634",
  "remedy": "Consumers should stop using and unplug the recalled thermal laminators immediately and contact 3M Company to receive a full refund…",
  "url": "https://cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027/3M-Company-Recalls-ScotchTM-Thermal-Laminators-…",
  "images": ["https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/3M1.png"]
}

{
  "agency": "FDA",
  "category": "Drugs",
  "recallId": "D-0860-2026",
  "recallDate": "2026-09-30",
  "title": "Sterling Pharmaceutical Services LLC: TRP The Relief Products* Gentle Eyes Lubricant Eye Drops…",
  "hazard": "Lack of Assurance of Sterility",
  "classification": "Class II",
  "firm": "Sterling Pharmaceutical Services LLC",
  "distribution": "USA Nationwide",
  "nationwide": true,
  "quantity": "14538 bottles",
  "codeInfo": "Lot # 3279, Exp 6/30/2027; Lot # 3292, Exp 5/31/2027.",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "url": "https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Event=99712"
}

{
  "agency": "NHTSA",
  "recallId": "26V680000",
  "recallDate": "2026-10-16",
  "title": "Seating Power Cord May Have Inadequate Circuit Protection",
  "product": "ELECTRICAL SYSTEM",
  "firm": "Alliance RV, LLC",
  "hazard": "In the event of a short circuit, inadequate protection increases the risk of a fire.",
  "quantity": 3686,
  "remedy": "Dealers will replace the power cord, free of charge…",
  "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=26V680000"
}

The run summary (records per source, unavailable sources, whether the max charge was reached) is saved to the OUTPUT record of the key-value store.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.001 per recall saved ($1 per 1,000) plus a tiny start fee. Use Max recalls or a maximum cost per run to cap spend; the Actor stops gracefully at your limit.

Actor	Sources	Price per record
This Actor	CPSC + FDA food/drug/device + NHTSA	$0.001
zenolvepro/cpsc-recalls	CPSC	$0.005
carranza-tech/fda-recall-monitor	FDA	$0.003
scrapepilot/fda-nhtsa-recall-monitor	FDA + NHTSA	$0.008

(Store prices as of October 2026.)

Use with AI agents / Apify MCP

Add the Actor to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server and ask things like "Any Class I recalls of peanut products in the last two weeks?" or "Has Graco had any car seat recalls this year?". Small, typed input and a flat, normalized output make it a cheap, reliable agent tool.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? CPSC and NHTSA publish recalls as they are announced. FDA enforcement reports are published weekly (openFDA updates weekly), so FDA recalls appear with the weekly report date — often a few weeks after the firm's press release.

Why does the FDA have many records per event? FDA lists each recalled product separately (recallId like F-1234-2026); sourceIds.event_id groups them into one recall event.

Do CPSC and NHTSA have classes or states? No. Those recalls are nationwide and unclassified, so the Classification and States filters only narrow FDA records.

Do I need an openFDA key? No. Keyless openFDA access allows 1,000 requests per day per IP, and a run uses only a few. If you run it very often, add your free key in openFDA API key.

What if one agency's API is down? The other sources are still saved; the failed source is logged and listed in OUTPUT.sourceErrors.

How do scheduled alerts work? Enable Only new recalls and schedule the Actor (e.g. daily). Each run saves – and charges for – only recalls not returned before under the same State key. Connect a webhook, Slack, email or Zapier integration to get notified.

Data sources and terms

Data comes from official, public US government APIs: CPSC Recalls API (saferproducts.gov), openFDA (api.fda.gov, CC0 / openFDA terms) and NHTSA Recalls Data on the US DOT data portal (datahub.transportation.gov, public domain). Government works are public domain. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these agencies. openFDA notes: do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care. Always confirm with the official recall notice (url).