CPSC Consumer Product Recall Tracker – Product Safety API

A CPSC recall API and product-safety data feed that pulls consumer-product recalls from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's official SaferProducts service and normalizes each into a clean record: product and model, hazard, remedy, units affected, manufacturer, importer and country of origin. Use it to build a product recall monitor for a retail catalog or marketplace, a compliance alerting tool, or a data feed for product-liability research.

Who uses it

Retailers and e-commerce marketplaces screening catalogs for recalled SKUs, compliance and product-safety teams, insurers, product-liability and consumer-protection law firms, and safety-focused consumer apps.

Why this is worth charging for

A recalled product still listed for sale is a direct legal and reputational liability. CPSC publishes recalls but only via a raw REST endpoint with deeply nested arrays and no deduplication or schedule-ready delivery. This actor turns it into a monitored feed keyed to your catalog, charging only for new recalls.

Output

Each dataset item is one normalized record:

{
  "recallId": 12345,
  "recallNumber": "24-123",
  "recallDate": "2024-03-01",
  "title": "Widget Space Heaters Recalled Due to Fire Hazard",
  "products": [
    {
      "name": "Widget Heater",
      "model": "WH-100",
      "type": "Space heater",
      "units": 50000
    }
  ],
  "totalUnits": 50000,
  "hazards": [
    "Fire",
    "Burn"
  ],
  "remedies": [
    "Refund"
  ],
  "manufacturers": [
    "Widget Co"
  ],
  "manufacturerCountries": [
    "China"
  ],
  "soldAt": "Online at example.com",
  "url": "https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/example",
  "source": "CPSC SaferProducts"
}

Input

Field	Description
recallDateStart	Only include recalls on or after this date.
recallDateEnd	Only include recalls on or before this date.
recallTitle	Filter recalls whose title contains this keyword (e.g. a product category or brand).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Recommended for schedules — skips records already returned by a previous run using persisted state, so you're only charged for genuinely new items.
maxItems	Stop after this many normalized records.

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

• query — $0.02, charged once per run for the API query/poll.
• recall-record — $0.04 per normalized record pushed. This is the primary event.
• apify-actor-start (Apify-managed) — covers baseline compute per run.

A daily poll of new recalls returns a few records at most, costing pennies per run. Backfilling a full year of recalls is a one-time larger pull you control with the date range.

Source & reliability

Data comes from CPSC's official saferproducts.gov REST service. No proxies or anti-bot handling required. Run npm test for the offline self-test covering the normalizer, including edge cases and missing-field handling.

FAQ

Is there an API for CPSC recalls?

Yes — this actor wraps CPSC's SaferProducts service and returns clean, deduplicated recall records you can pull via the Apify API, webhook or export.

Can I match recalls to my product catalog?

Yes. Filter by title keyword or date, then match the normalized product name/model and manufacturer fields against your SKUs downstream.

How far back does it go?

Set recallDateStart to backfill historical recalls; leave it blank and schedule the run to only capture new ones.

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