# Recalls Radar — FDA, CPSC, Canada, UK & EU Safety Gate (`tacps126/recalls-radar`) Actor

Product recalls and safety alerts in one feed: US FDA (food, drugs, devices), CPSC, Health Canada, CFIA, Transport Canada, UK FSA and OPSS, EU Safety Gate. Product, brand, company, hazard, class; alerts; AI summaries.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tacps126/recalls-radar.md
- **Developed by:** [Tapaswai Ashok Choudhary](https://apify.com/tacps126) (community)
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 recalls

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## Recalls Radar — FDA, CPSC, Canada, UK & EU Safety Gate

Product recalls and safety alerts from **seven regulators in one clean feed**: US FDA enforcement reports (food, drugs and medical devices), the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Health Canada, CFIA and Transport Canada, the UK Food Standards Agency and Office for Product Safety and Standards, and the EU Safety Gate (dangerous non-food products across the EU and EEA). Filter by your brands, suppliers or product types; get only what's new; let AI say what's affected and what to do.

**Built for** retailers and marketplaces (pull recalled listings fast), brands and manufacturers (watch your category and competitors), importers and distributors, product-liability insurers, food safety and quality teams, and AI agents.

### Sources

| Publisher | What you get |
|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 **FDA** (openFDA enforcement reports) | Food, drug and medical device recalls with recalling firm, reason, class I–III, distribution, quantity |
| 🇺🇸 **CPSC** | Consumer product recalls with products, hazard, remedy, units, country of manufacture, image |
| 🇺🇸 **NHTSA** | Vehicle and equipment recalls: make, models and years, component, defect, consequence, remedy, vehicles affected, do-not-drive flag |
| 🇨🇦 **Health Canada, CFIA, Transport Canada** | Food, drugs, devices, vehicles and consumer products with issue and recall class |
| 🇬🇧 **Food Standards Agency** | Food recalls and allergy alerts with business, products and risk statement |
| 🇬🇧 **OPSS** | Product safety alerts, reports and recalls with risk level |
| 🇪🇺 **Safety Gate** | Dangerous products notified by EU/EEA authorities with product, brand and risk type |

### Why this Actor

- **One schema.** `category`, `title`, `product`, `brands`, `company`, `hazard`, `classification`, `date`, `status`, `distribution`, `quantity`, `remedy`, `madeIn`, `image`, `url`.
- **Watch what matters.** Keywords match the title, product, brand, company and hazard: `peanut`, `lithium battery`, your brand or your supplier.
- **Recall alerts.** Turn on *Only new* and schedule it daily; send results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, a webhook or an RSS reader.
- **AI insights (optional).** What exactly is affected, how serious it is, what sellers should do, and with your profile a relevance score.
- **For AI agents.** Callable as an MCP tool.

### How to use it

```json
{
  "keywords": ["baby", "infant", "crib"],
  "categories": ["consumer-product"],
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "onlyNew": true
}
```

### Pricing

**$2 per 1,000 recalls** plus a small start fee per run. AI insights, when you turn them on, are $0.01 each plus the model's own cost.

### Good to know

Records are as the regulators publish them; the `url` is the official notice (FDA links open the enforcement report's event page). Need another source? **Contact tacps126@gmail.com**.

# Actor input Schema

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

Only recalls whose title, product, brand, company or hazard contains one of these (e.g. your brands, suppliers, product types). Empty = all.

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

Empty = all.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Empty = all.

## `postedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Recalls published in this window.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Leave out recalls containing any of these.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Pick specific sources instead of publishers and categories.

## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Most recalls kept from each source.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Most recalls returned (newest first).

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Schedule the Actor (daily or weekly) and each run returns only recalls that earlier runs with the same settings did not deliver.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the “only new” history, so several monitors can run side by side.

## `tenantId` (type: `string`):

Optional label used to keep separate histories for different clients or teams.

## `aiInsights` (type: `boolean`):

Add an `insight` to each recall: what is affected, the risk and what to do, in plain words; with a profile, how relevant it is to you.

## `aiProfile` (type: `string`):

What your business sells or makes and where, e.g. "UK online retailer of baby products and toys, imports from China".

## `aiLanguage` (type: `string`):

Insights are written in this language, whatever the source language.

## `maxInsights` (type: `integer`):

Insights are added to the first N recalls (newest first).

## `aiProvider` (type: `string`):

Which AI does the analysis. Apify needs no key: the model runs through Apify's OpenRouter proxy and is billed to your Apify account. Any other provider uses your own key and bills you there.

## `aiApiKey` (type: `string`):

Your own key for the provider above (not needed for Apify). Sent only to that provider, never stored.

## `aiModel` (type: `string`):

Model name. Apify: an OpenRouter id like anthropic/claude-sonnet-… or google/gemini-… (default: the newest Claude Haiku listed, a light model since it runs once per result). Anthropic: default claude-opus-5-5. Others: required.

## `aiBaseUrl` (type: `string`):

Only for "Other OpenAI-compatible API", e.g. http://localhost:11434/v1 for Ollama.

## `debug` (type: `boolean`):

Save extra diagnostics with the run (for support requests).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "peanut",
    "lithium battery"
  ],
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "maxItemsPerSource": 300,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "aiInsights": false,
  "aiLanguage": "English",
  "maxInsights": 25,
  "aiProvider": "apify",
  "debug": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The produced items (default dataset items).

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "peanut",
        "lithium battery"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tacps126/recalls-radar").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 = { "keywords": [
        "peanut",
        "lithium battery",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tacps126/recalls-radar").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "peanut",
    "lithium battery"
  ]
}' |
apify call tacps126/recalls-radar --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tacps126/recalls-radar"
        }
    }
}
```

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/qjRIffWxZmufhEGAy/builds/rl0XYH7zbMjXGqXJw/openapi.json