NZ Product Recall Alert Monitor

Aggregates public New Zealand product, food, vehicle, and safety recall notices into normalized alert rows for compliance and retail monitoring.

What it does

This actor scans public recall listing pages, follows candidate recall and safety alert links, and emits ranked recall notice rows with affected product, agency, risk type, evidence, and capture time.

Default discovery sources:

• https://www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety-home/food-recalls-and-complaints/recalled-food-products/
• https://www.productsafety.govt.nz/recalls/

Detected signals include recall, recalled, safety alert, affected product, risk, hazard, food recall, and vehicle recall.

Input

{
  "sourceUrls": [
    "https://www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety-home/food-recalls-and-complaints/recalled-food-products/",
    "https://www.productsafety.govt.nz/recalls/"
  ],
  "useDefaultSources": true,
  "categories": ["food", "consumer product", "vehicle"],
  "maxItems": 250
}

• sourceUrls: Optional public recall listing pages to scan. If supplied, default sources are not mixed in.
• useDefaultSources: Uses built-in MPI and Product Safety NZ sources when sourceUrls is empty.
• categories: Optional recall category hints retained for run configuration and future filtering.
• maxItems: Maximum number of ranked recall rows.

Output

Rows are pushed to the default dataset.

{
  "recordType": "recallNotice",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.productsafety.govt.nz/recalls/electric-heater-safety-alert",
  "title": "Electric heater safety alert",
  "recallDate": "2026-06-30",
  "agency": "Product Safety NZ",
  "affectedProduct": "Compact electric heater",
  "riskType": "fire",
  "confidence": 0.9,
  "evidenceText": "Electric heater safety alert. Product Safety NZ recall notice. Affected product: Compact electric heater. Hazard: fire and injury risk.",
  "capturedAt": "2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Limitations

The actor uses public HTML link discovery and text extraction. Sites requiring login, JavaScript-only rendering, CAPTCHA, or non-public APIs are outside the current scope. Agency, affected product, and risk type extraction are evidence-based heuristics and should be reviewed for compliance workflows.

Local run

npm install
npm test
npx --yes apify-cli validate-schema
apify run

Do not publish without an explicit deployment approval gate.