# Canada Product Recall and Safety Alert Monitor (`prixodik/canada-product-recall-safety-alert-monitor`) Actor

Monitor Canada's official daily recall dataset across food, products, medicines, devices, cannabis, and vehicles; emit new or changed notices.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/prixodik/canada-product-recall-safety-alert-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Milchenko Oleksii](https://apify.com/prixodik) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 93.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 recall or safety alerts

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Canada Product Recall and Safety Alert Monitor

Monitor the Government of Canada's official English open dataset across food, consumer products, drugs, medical devices, cannabis, and vehicles. The source uses one consistent headline-level schema, so this Actor preserves its English fields without inventing product-level details that the feed does not publish.

Filter by exact organization, category, update date (`updatedFrom`/`updatedThrough`), archive status, or keywords across the title, product, issue, action, and category fields. The source `Category` string is preserved as `category`; a selected category also matches a component separated by the source's `-` convention. In monitor mode, a named key-value store (`stateStoreName`) persists across runs. The first run establishes a filter-specific baseline; later runs emit only new or semantically changed notices. Set a distinct `stateKey` for each independent watchlist. Records blocked by a charge limit remain eligible next time; `baselineOnly` intentionally stores the current baseline without emitting it.

```json
{"organizations":["CFIA"],"categories":["Food"],"keywords":["allergen"],"updatedFrom":"2026-01-01","archiveStatus":"active","maxResults":250,"monitorMode":true,"firstRunBehavior":"emit","stateKey":"food-compliance"}
```

Output includes the stable `noticeId`, all English source fields, `archived`, `changeType`, `changedFields`, observation time, and official URL. `RUN_SUMMARY` records counts and truncation in the default key-value store. The daily feed is downloaded as one JSON array; source-side cursor pagination is not available. The Actor rejects responses above 25 MB before parsing. Use filters and `maxResults` to bound output. A failed or malformed download fails the run and leaves the prior baseline intact.

The feed provides notice-level summaries. Follow `sourceUrl` for affected lots, models, geographic scope, and detailed instructions. Absence from results is not proof of safety or recall closure.

### Pricing

Pay per event: $0.01 per run start plus $0.0025 per delivered notice. Platform usage is included. In monitor mode, runs that find no new or changed notices are charged only the start event.

Source: [Government of Canada Recalls and Safety Alerts](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d38de914-c94c-429b-8ab1-8776c31643e3), updated daily and licensed under the [Open Government Licence – Canada](https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Attribution: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. This Actor is independent and is not endorsed by the Government of Canada.

# Actor input Schema

## `organizations` (type: `array`):

Exact source organizations, for example CFIA or Medical devices.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Exact source category or one component separated by the source delimiter.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Match at least one phrase across title, product, issue and official action.

## `updatedFrom` (type: `string`):

Inclusive real calendar date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `updatedThrough` (type: `string`):

Inclusive real calendar date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `archiveStatus` (type: `string`):

Return active notices, archived notices, or both.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum matching records considered for delivery and state.

## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`):

Emit only new or semantically updated records across runs.

## `firstRunBehavior` (type: `string`):

Emit current matches or save them as a silent baseline.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional isolation key for independent watchlists.

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Named key-value store shared across runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "organizations": [],
  "categories": [],
  "keywords": [],
  "archiveStatus": "active",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "firstRunBehavior": "emit",
  "stateStoreName": "canada-recall-monitor-state"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("prixodik/canada-product-recall-safety-alert-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("prixodik/canada-product-recall-safety-alert-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call prixodik/canada-product-recall-safety-alert-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,prixodik/canada-product-recall-safety-alert-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GZYJ9CQdcRNAb5HPI/builds/CtkOSOEbrcF7VQ6vH/openapi.json