Canada Recalls & Safety Alerts – Health Canada, CFIA, TC
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 recall notices
Canada Recalls & Safety Alerts – Health Canada, CFIA, TC
Government of Canada recalls and safety alerts (food, consumer products, vehicles, drugs, medical devices) from official open data. Filter by agency, category, class and date.
Canada Recalls & Safety Alerts (Health Canada, CFIA, Transport Canada)
What it does
Downloads the Government of Canada Recalls and Safety Alerts open data feed (one JSON file, ~34,000 notices, updated continually) and returns clean, filtered rows, newest first. One request per run; it does not scrape web pages.
Source: Recalls and Safety Alerts on open.canada.ca (English and French feeds).
Who it's for
Retailers, importers and distributors monitoring product recalls; food-safety and QA teams; insurers and fleet managers (vehicle recalls); medtech/pharma compliance; news and alert apps. Run it on a schedule with updatedFrom to get only new notices.
Input
| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
language | en (default) or fr |
organization | contains, e.g. CFIA, TC, Medical devices |
category | contains, e.g. Food, Car |
recallClass | contains, e.g. Class 1, Type II |
issue | contains, e.g. Listeria |
keyword | title or product contains |
updatedFrom / updatedTo | YYYY-MM-DD |
includeArchived | default false |
maxItems | default 100 (max 50,000) |
Example: {"organization": "CFIA", "updatedFrom": "2026-10-01"}
Output
id, title, url, organization, product, issue, category, recallClass, whatToDo, lastUpdated, archived, source, licence. Blank and -- values become null.
Privacy
The feed has no dedicated personal-data columns, but its free text does contain contact details. About 956 notices include email addresses (some at personal webmail like gmail or hotmail), and about 1,080 include phone numbers. These are mostly company recall contacts, but some belong to sole traders. This Actor therefore:
- replaces every email address and phone number with
[redacted]inwhatToDo,issue,categoryandorganization(government contacts too) - in
titleandproduct, redacts emails and clearly formatted phone numbers (e.g.613-555-0000), but keeps bare digit runs because they are almost always part numbers, lot numbers or UPCs - passes through untouched only
id,url,sourceandlicence
On the Oct 16, 2026 feed, 1,308 notices had text redacted. Afterwards no email addresses were left (only the product name Merlin@Home) and no phone-formatted numbers. Contact names written into free text without an email or phone (e.g. "contact John at the store") are not detected. For full contact instructions, follow the official url.
Pricing
Price: $0.003 per result, no start fee (pay per event, one result = one notice). 1,000 notices cost $3.00. All ~19,800 current (non-archived) notices cost about $59.40, so use date filters or a schedule with updatedFrom to get only new ones.
Licence and terms
- Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada, which allows use "including for commercial purposes" with attribution. Every row carries the attribution.
- Automated access: the feed is a published open-data file under
/sites/default/files/. recalls-rappels.canada.ca robots.txt does not disallow that path (it blocks only admin, user and search pages). No terms ban downloading open data automatically. - Independent; not endorsed by the Government of Canada.
Limits
- Freshness matches the government feed. Fields are summaries; follow
urlfor the full notice.
