Product Recall Feed (US agencies)

Product Recall Feed (US agencies) — unofficial

One normalised feed of US product-safety recalls from three official government sources: openFDA (FDA food, drug and device enforcement reports), the CPSC Recalls API, and NHTSA vehicle/equipment recall data. Each recall is one flat row: agency, recall id, date, product, hazard/reason, classification, recalling organisation, distribution area, status, remedy and an official URL where available.

This actor is unofficial and independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the FDA, CPSC, NHTSA or the U.S. Department of Transportation.

What you get

Field	Meaning
source, sourceLabel, agency, jurisdiction, category	Where the row came from (fdaFood / fdaDrug / fdaDevice / cpsc / nhtsa)
recallId, rawSourceId, recallDate	Stable id and report / recall date
product, hazard, classification, remedy	What was recalled and why
company	Recalling firm or manufacturer (organisations only)
distributionArea, status, url	Where it shipped, status, link to the official notice when the source provides one
attribution	Short source acknowledgement to keep if you republish

Organisation / product data only: consumer contact lines, e-mails and phone numbers are stripped; CPSC ConsumerContact is never stored.

How to run it

1. Leave Sources at the default (all five) or pick the agencies you care about.
2. Optionally set a keyword (e.g. allergen, airbag, battery) and a date window (default: last 7 days).
3. Click Start. A default daily-sized run finishes in well under 5 minutes.
4. For alerts, schedule the actor with Only new since last run and a distinct state key.

Sample input (daily check)

{
  "sources": ["fdaFood", "fdaDrug", "fdaDevice", "cpsc", "nhtsa"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "daily-us"
}

Data sources, licences and attribution

Keep the attribution field (or an equivalent credit) if you republish rows.

Source	Access	Licence / terms (verified for this build)
openFDA food / drug / device enforcement	api.fda.gov (API key optional)	Content is public domain / CC0 1.0 unless a record says otherwise. Not FDA-endorsed.
CPSC recalls	SaferProducts Recalls API (no key)	Published for businesses and developers; posted recall information may be distributed or copied; personally identifiable information is excluded. See CPSC Recalls API.
NHTSA recalls	Flat file FLAT_RCL_POST_2010.zip on static.nhtsa.gov (campaign-level)	U.S. government work; developer use encouraged via NHTSA datasets and APIs.

Rate limits: openFDA allows about 240 requests/minute without a key (higher with a free key). This actor paces requests and honours Retry-After. NHTSA uses one flat-file download per run that includes that source.

Privacy

• No consumer names, e-mails, phone numbers or CPSC ConsumerContact fields.
• Free-text fields run through e-mail/phone redaction and honorific+personal-name scrubbing.
• Recalling firms that look like an individual name without an organisation marker are replaced with [individual / name withheld].

Disclaimer

Data may be incomplete, delayed or wrong relative to the agencies' own websites. Always confirm critical decisions against the official notice linked in url (or on the agency site). This tool is for monitoring and research, not legal or regulatory advice.

Changelog

• 0.1 — Initial private release: FDA food/drug/device, CPSC, NHTSA; normalised schema; only-new mode.