Product Recalls Feed — FDA, CPSC & NHTSA Recall Alerts

Product Recalls Feed: FDA, CPSC & NHTSA Recall Alerts

One feed for US product recalls, in one clean schema, straight from the official government APIs:

• FDA enforcement reports: food, drugs and medical devices (openFDA)
• CPSC consumer product recalls: toys, furniture, appliances, e-bikes, baby gear… (SaferProducts.gov)
• NHTSA vehicle recalls, by model year and make, optionally the model (api.nhtsa.gov)

Filter by keyword, brand or company, product category, date and FDA classification. Switch on Only new recalls and schedule it to get recall alerts: each run returns only the recalls that appeared since the last run.

Price: $0.003 per recall returned ($3 per 1,000). The prefilled example (all five sources, 50 recalls) finishes in under 15 seconds.

Use this when…

• you sell or stock products and need a recall alert when a brand or supplier you carry is recalled
• you run compliance, quality or safety monitoring across food, drugs, devices, consumer products and vehicles
• you want FDA recalls, CPSC recalls and NHTSA recalls in one table instead of three formats
• you track Class I (most serious) FDA recalls, or "park it" / "park outside" vehicle recalls
• you check a fleet's vehicles (by model year and make) for new safety recalls
• you feed recall data into a spreadsheet, a dashboard, Slack or an AI agent

For AI agents

• Run signalloom/product-recalls-feed (Apify MCP server call-actor, or the Apify API) with input like {"sources": ["fda-food", "cpsc"], "keywords": ["listeria"], "postedWithinDays": 30, "maxResults": 20}
• Returns one JSON row per recall in the default dataset, newest first: agency, date, title, productDescription, brands, reason, classification, severity, remedy, url.
• Typical cost: up to 20 recalls = $0.06 at most ($0.003 per recall).

How to use it

1. Pick Sources: FDA food, FDA drugs, FDA medical devices, CPSC, NHTSA.
2. Optional filters:
   • Keywords: listeria, undeclared peanut, lithium battery
   • Brands or companies: Ford, Trader Joe
   • Product categories: toys, strollers, air bags
   • FDA classification: Class I, II or III
3. Choose the dates: Posted within the last N days (default 30), or a From / To range.
4. For NHTSA, add Vehicles as model year plus make, and optionally a model: 2026 Ford or 2024 Honda Accord.
5. Click Start. Results come newest first.

How the filters combine: terms within one filter are OR, and different filters are AND. Each record lists the terms it matched in matchedTerms.

Recipe: recall alerts. Save a task with your brands or keywords, turn on Only new recalls, and schedule it daily. The first run returns the newest matches and remembers everything that matches now. After that, each run returns only recalls that are new since the run before.

Output

One record per recall. Real examples from a run on 2026-11-11, with long text shortened:

{
  "source": "cpsc",
  "agency": "CPSC",
  "recallId": "27064",
  "date": "2026-11-05",
  "title": "Vanderhall North America Recalls All Model Year 2024-2026 Brawley Electric Recreational Off-road Vehicles Due to Injury and Crash Hazards",
  "productDescription": "This recall involves all Model Year 2024-2026 Brawley GTS Electric ROVs. …",
  "productCategory": "Recreational Vehicles (Unlicensed)",
  "brands": ["Vanderhall North America"],
  "companies": ["Vanderhall North America LLC, of Provo, Utah"],
  "reason": "The seat belts in Brawley ROVs can permanently lockup in the fully retracted position. …",
  "classification": null,
  "severity": null,
  "distribution": "Sold At: Vanderhall dealers in Utah, Ohio, Michigan, Texas, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Arizona from April 2024 to June 2026 for about $50,000.",
  "quantity": "About 190",
  "remedy": "Consumers should stop using the recalled vehicles immediately and contact an authorized Vanderhall dealer to schedule a free repair. …",
  "status": null,
  "url": "https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027/Vanderhall-North-America-Recalls-All-Model-Year-2024-2026-Brawley-Electric-Recreational-Off-road-Vehicles-Due-to-Injury-and-Crash-Hazards",
  "matchedTerms": [],
  "isNew": true,
  "incidents": "Vanderhall has received 11 reports of the seat belt locking up. No injuries have been reported."
}

{
  "source": "fda-food",
  "agency": "FDA",
  "recallId": "H-0175-2027",
  "date": "2026-11-04",
  "title": "Blue Bottle Coffee 4oz Sweet Blossom Simple Syrup in a glass boston round bottle with metal and… (Pink House Alchemy, LLC)",
  "productCategory": "Food",
  "brands": ["Pink House Alchemy, LLC"],
  "companyLocation": "Fayetteville, AR, United States",
  "reason": "Potential contamination with mold (Aspergillus niger)",
  "classification": "Class II",
  "severity": "medium",
  "quantity": "9420 bottles",
  "status": "Ongoing",
  "recallType": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
  "recallInitiationDate": "2026-09-10",
  "codeInfo": "UPC: 810123980659 Batch information: 4ozBBCSB261051, Expiration Date: 04/15/2028 …",
  "url": "https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Event=99961"
}

{
  "source": "nhtsa",
  "agency": "NHTSA",
  "recallId": "26V725000",
  "date": "2026-11-02",
  "title": "2026 FORD BRONCO recall: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER",
  "productDescription": "Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2026 Bronco vehicles. A wiper arm nut on the driver-side may loosen, causing the windshield wipers to detach.",
  "brands": ["FORD"],
  "companies": ["Ford Motor Company"],
  "reason": "A loss of driver-side wiper function can reduce driver visibility in certain weather conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.",
  "remedy": "Dealers will inspect the wipers, tighten the wiper arm nut, and replace the wiper arms as necessary, free of charge. …",
  "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=26V725000",
  "affectedVehicles": [{ "make": "FORD", "model": "BRONCO", "modelYear": "2026" }]
}

Fields

Field	Meaning
source	fda-food, fda-drug, fda-device, cpsc or nhtsa
recallId	FDA recall number, CPSC recall number or NHTSA campaign number
date	FDA enforcement report date, CPSC recall date, or NHTSA report date (YYYY-MM-DD)
brands, companies	Recalling firm, brand, manufacturer, importer or vehicle make
reason	Reason for recall (FDA), hazard (CPSC) or consequence (NHTSA)
classification	FDA Class I/II/III; NHTSA "Park it: do not drive" or "Park outside: fire risk"; CPSC has none
severity	high (FDA Class I, NHTSA park-it or park-outside), medium (Class II), low (Class III), else null
distribution, quantity	Where it was sold or shipped, and how many units, when the agency publishes it
remedy, status	What to do (CPSC, NHTSA) and the recall status (FDA)
matchedTerms	Which of your keywords, brands or categories matched
isNew	true if no earlier run with the same filters returned it

Some fields exist for one source only: codeInfo, recallType and recallInitiationDate (FDA); incidents, upcs and imageUrl (CPSC); affectedVehicles and overTheAirUpdate (NHTSA).

The run summary, saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store, gives per-source counts, timings, any source errors and notes.

Pricing

• $0.003 per recall returned ($3 per 1,000)
• Nothing else is charged: scanning, filtering and recalls that don't match are free.
• In Only new mode you pay only for new recalls, so a quiet day costs almost nothing.

Data sources

Source	What	Access
openFDA food, drug and device enforcement endpoints	Recalls classified by the FDA, updated weekly	Public API; works without a key (240 requests a minute). An optional free openFDA key raises the limits.
CPSC Recalls API (SaferProducts.gov)	Consumer product recalls	Public REST API, no key
NHTSA Recalls API (api.nhtsa.gov)	Vehicle safety recalls by make, model and year	Public API, no key

All are official, documented US government APIs. Requests are paced per host and back off on errors. USDA FSIS meat and poultry recalls aren't included: its website and API currently refuse automated clients, and this Actor doesn't work around access controls.

Data handling

• Only public government recall data is read. No login, no scraping of web pages.
• No personal data: email addresses inside the recall text are removed (the url links to the official notice), and street addresses and consumer contact blocks are left out. Company names, cities and countries stay, because they identify the recalling business.

Limitations

• NHTSA has no public "all recent recalls" API, so it is searched by the vehicles you list (up to 60 make, model and year combinations per run). NHTSA doesn't publish unit counts per vehicle in this API, so quantity is empty.
• FDA dates are the weekly enforcement report date, which is usually a few weeks after the firm started the recall (recallInitiationDate). Each FDA category scans at most the newest 10,000 records per run. For older history, narrow the dates.
• Brand matching is text matching. FDA lists the recalling firm, which isn't always the consumer brand, so the product description is searched too.
• severity is a simple mapping of each agency's own classes. It isn't a risk assessment.

FAQ

How do I get alerts for new FDA or CPSC recalls?

Pick the sources and filters, turn on Only new recalls ("onlyNew": true) and schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns only recalls published since the previous run; connect it to email, Slack or a webhook.

How do I check if a brand has any recalls?

Put the brand in Brands (e.g. Trader Joe), set a date range, and run. It searches FDA, CPSC and NHTSA records in one go.

How do I find recalls for my car?

Select the NHTSA source and add the vehicle as model year plus make and model, e.g. 2024 Honda Accord.

Where does the data come from?

Official US government sources: openFDA enforcement reports, the CPSC recalls API and NHTSA's recalls API. Every row links to the official recall page.

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