US Product Recalls API: CPSC + FDA recalls (openFDA)

US Product Recalls API: CPSC recalls + FDA recalls (openFDA) in one feed

Get every new US product recall from CPSC (consumer products) and FDA (food, drugs and medical devices, from openFDA enforcement reports) in one clean schema. Filter by keyword, FDA class and date, and schedule it daily to receive only recalls you haven't seen.

• 4 recall sources in one Actor: CPSC consumer product recalls, FDA food recalls, FDA drug recalls and FDA medical device recalls.
• Official government APIs only. The CPSC Recalls API (SaferProducts.gov) and the openFDA enforcement API. No HTML scraping, no browser, no proxies, no API key needed. A 30-day pull of all four sources takes seconds.
• One schema for all agencies: recall ID, title, product, firm, brand, reason / hazard, FDA class (I, II, III), status, recall date, published date, quantity, distribution and the US states it reached, identifiers (UPC, model or catalog number, NDC, GTIN, lot codes) and the official link.
• Only-new mode for monitoring. Schedule it daily, and it returns (and charges for) only recalls it hasn't delivered before.
• $2.00 per 1,000 recalls. You pay only for recalls delivered. Recalls removed by your filters, or skipped as already seen, cost nothing.

Who uses it

• Retailers and marketplaces checking their catalog against new product recalls (match on UPC, model or brand).
• Product-safety, quality and compliance teams watching recalls in their category or for their suppliers.
• Food, pharmacy and medical-device distributors tracking FDA Class I recalls.
• Analysts and journalists studying recall trends by firm, product type or hazard.

Input

Field	What it does
sources	Any of cpsc, fda-food, fda-drug, fda-device. All four by default.
keywords	Keep recalls whose title, product, firm, brand or reason contains any of these words (peanut, listeria, stroller, insulin pump). Empty keeps all.
classifications	Keep only FDA recalls of these classes, for example ["Class I"] (the most serious). CPSC recalls have no class, so they are dropped when this is set.
publishedWithinDays	Recalls published in the last N days (1 to 3650). Default 30.
maxItemsPerSource	Cap per source, newest first. 0 = no cap.
maxItems	Cap in total. 0 = no cap.
onlyNew + stateKey	Return only recalls not delivered by an earlier run of the same monitor.
openFdaApiKey	Optional, and not needed for normal use. See Limits.

Example: daily check for serious food recalls involving allergens.

{
  "sources": ["fda-food"],
  "keywords": ["undeclared", "allergen", "peanut", "milk"],
  "classifications": ["Class I"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 14,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "food-allergen-watch"
}

Output

One item per recall. Example (fictional firm and product):

{
  "source": "fda-food",
  "agency": "FDA",
  "recallId": "F-0123-2027",
  "title": "Northwind Pantry Crunchy Trail Mix, 12 oz bag, UPC 0 12345 67890 5",
  "product": "Northwind Pantry Crunchy Trail Mix, 12 oz bag, UPC 0 12345 67890 5",
  "productType": "Food",
  "description": null,
  "firm": "Northwind Pantry Foods LLC",
  "brand": null,
  "reason": "Undeclared peanuts",
  "classification": "Class I",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "recallDate": "2026-10-02",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-21",
  "quantity": "4,800 bags",
  "distribution": "OR, WA, ID and online",
  "states": ["ID", "OR", "WA"],
  "manufacturedIn": [],
  "firmLocation": "Springfield, OR, United States",
  "identifiers": {
    "upc": ["012345678905"],
    "model": [],
    "ndc": [],
    "gtin": [],
    "lotCodes": "Lot 26-274A, best by 04/2027"
  },
  "remedy": null,
  "incidents": null,
  "consumerContact": null,
  "imageUrls": [],
  "voluntaryMandated": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
  "classificationDate": "2026-10-15",
  "fdaEventId": "100999",
  "url": "https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:%22F-0123-2027%22",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-30T10:20:00.000Z"
}

CPSC recalls fill description, remedy (refund, repair or replace), incidents (reported injuries), consumerContact, manufacturedIn and imageUrls, and link to the recall page on cpsc.gov. CPSC has no class or status, so those are null. For example: "title": "Acme Home Recalls Tabletop Heaters Due to Fire Hazard", "brand": "Acme Home", "firm": "Acme Home Products Inc.", "identifiers": { "model": ["AH-200"] }.

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or call it from the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent (MCP). A SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store gives the counts per source: fetched, matched, already seen, delivered, and any source that was unavailable.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per recall delivered ($2.00 per 1,000 recalls).

You run	Recalls (October 2026 volumes)	You pay
All 4 sources, last 30 days	≈ 470	≈ $0.94
All 4 sources, daily, only-new	≈ 15 a day	≈ $0.03 a day, ≈ $1 a month
FDA food, Class I only, daily, only-new	a few a week	cents a month
All 4 sources, full last year	≈ 6,150	≈ $12.30

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap spend. The Actor stops cleanly at your limit and says so in the log and the status message. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly usage, enough for about 2,500 recalls.

Limits

• Freshness. CPSC publishes recalls most Thursdays. openFDA updates enforcement reports weekly, and an FDA report usually appears a few weeks after the firm starts the recall (recallDate vs publishedDate).
• FDA status is not live. FDA says it does not update a recall's status after classification, so status is the status when the report was published.
• openFDA request limits. Without a key, openFDA allows 240 requests a minute and 1,000 a day per IP address. A normal run makes 1 request per FDA source (up to 1,000 recalls each). The Actor makes requests one at a time, pauses between pages, and retries politely. Very long windows (years of device recalls) take more requests; add your own free openFDA key if you run those often. openFDA returns at most 26,000 records per query window, so a window larger than that returns the newest and the run log tells you.
• One source down does not fail the run. The other sources are still delivered and SUMMARY.sourceErrors names the one that failed.
• Not covered: USDA FSIS (meat, poultry, eggs) and NHTSA (vehicles), and non-US agencies.

Personal data

Recall notices list the firm's consumer hotline and recall email. This Actor removes every email address and phone number from all text fields ([phone removed], [email removed]), and leaves out the firm's street address (city, state and country stay). Website links stay. Product codes that look like phone numbers (lot, catalog and part numbers) are kept, because they are what you match recalls on.

Sources and terms

• CPSC: the CPSC Recalls API (SaferProducts.gov REST web services). CPSC states that information on its websites is public and may be freely distributed and copied, and asks that it be credited. Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
• FDA: the openFDA food, drug and device enforcement report APIs, public domain (CC0) under the openFDA terms. Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (https://open.fda.gov).
• openFDA disclaimer: "Do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care. While we make every effort to ensure that data is accurate, you should assume all results are unvalidated." FDA also states: "This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall." For public-facing alerts, link to the official FDA or CPSC notice, which is the authority.
• This Actor is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, CPSC, FDA or the U.S. government.

FAQ

How do I match recalls against my products? Run it with onlyNew on a daily schedule, then join identifiers.upc, identifiers.model, identifiers.ndc, brand or firm against your catalog.

Why is brand empty? CPSC brands come from the recall title ("Acme Recalls ..."), and some titles don't name one. FDA publishes a brand only for some drugs.

Why does a recall ID start with EVENT-? openFDA sometimes publishes a report without a recall number. The Actor gives it a stable ID from the FDA event number, so only-new mode still works.

Something broke or a field is wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the recall ID. Issues are answered within 24 hours.