Product Recall API: EU Safety Gate, CPSC & FDA Recalls

Product Recall API returns product recalls and safety alerts from three official public feeds as clean JSON rows in one schema, with no API key needed:

• EU Safety Gate: the European Commission's rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products (EU/EEA), read from its weekly-report XML feed.
• US CPSC: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls, from the SaferProducts.gov recalls API.
• US FDA: food, drug and medical device recall enforcement reports, from openFDA.

Each row has the source's recall ID, dates, product name and description, brand, models, batch numbers and barcodes where published, the hazard, a normalised risk level, the remedy or measures taken, companies named by the source, countries, image links, the official link, and the source's licence and attribution. Filter by keyword, brand or company, barcode and risk level, or turn on monitor mode and schedule it to get only recalls you haven't had before.

Use it as a product recall API and recall monitor: search CPSC recalls, EU Safety Gate alerts and FDA recalls (openFDA enforcement reports for food, drugs and medical devices) in one schema, run a barcode recall check against your catalogue, or schedule a weekly product recall monitor. Export rows as CSV, JSON or Excel.

Not affiliated with the European Commission, CPSC or FDA. This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. It reads their official public feeds. Each row carries the source's licence and attribution (see Data sources and licences).

Why use this product recall API?

• Official feeds, not scraped web pages. Safety Gate comes from the Commission's own XML download, CPSC and FDA from their public APIs, so a redesign of a search website doesn't break it.
• One schema for three sources. The same field names and one riskLevel scale (serious, moderate, low, other, unknown), with each source's own wording kept in riskLevelDetail and source-specific fields in extra.
• Barcode matching that works across regions. Digits are compared, so a 12-digit UPC matches the same 13-digit EAN with a leading 0.
• Only new recalls when you want them. Monitor mode remembers which recall IDs it has returned and returns only new ones. A run with nothing new gets a free no_new_recalls row.
• Clear answers when nothing is found. Each source with nothing in range gets a free no_matches row, a source that fails gets a free source_error row while the others carry on, and a run that stops early says why.
• You choose how much comes back. maxResults caps the whole run, maxResultsPerSource caps each source, and the Actor stops before your run's maximum cost.
• Product and company data only. Consumer contact fields are never copied, and emails and phone numbers are removed from free text.
• Polite to the sources. Requests are paced per source, retried after rate-limit or server errors, and identify the Actor.

How do I search product recalls? Quick start

Press Start with the prefilled input, or paste this into the JSON view of the Input tab. It finds chargers and power banks recalled in the last 14 days, at most 3 per source.

{
  "publishedWithinDays": 14,
  "keywords": ["charger", "power bank"],
  "maxResultsPerSource": 3
}

In our test run on 30 October 2026 it returned 4 recalls (3 from EU Safety Gate, 1 from CPSC) and a free no_matches row for each FDA dataset.

EU and CPSC recalls listing one barcode in the last year:

{
  "sources": ["EU_SAFETY_GATE", "US_CPSC"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 365,
  "barcodes": ["5907481111094"],
  "maxSafetyGateReports": 52
}

Weekly monitor of FDA food recalls mentioning peanut or milk:

{
  "sources": ["US_FDA"],
  "fdaProductTypes": ["food"],
  "keywords": ["peanut", "milk"],
  "publishedWithinDays": 14,
  "monitorMode": true
}

Who it's for

• Retailers, marketplaces and importers checking their catalogue against new recalls by brand, barcode or keyword.
• Product safety, compliance and quality teams watching their product categories across the EU and US.
• Data teams and journalists who want one table of recalls from three regulators.

What can I do with product recall data?

1. Catalogue check. Pass your barcodes and get any recall that lists them.
2. Weekly safety digest. Schedule monitor mode with your keywords and get only new recalls each week.
3. Brand watch. Follow recalls naming your brands or suppliers.
4. Category research. Pull every serious-risk alert in a category over a date range.

What does the recall data look like?

The rows from the Quick start input (run on 30 October 2026), shortened:

Source	Recall ID	Published	Risk level	Title	Barcodes
EU_SAFETY_GATE	SR/03027/26	2026-10-30	serious	Football with LED lights, Coolstuff, LED Football
EU_SAFETY_GATE	SR/03069/26	2026-10-30	serious	Charger, vhbw, Power Supply	250667382315
EU_SAFETY_GATE	SR/03044/26	2026-10-30	serious	USB charger, X-start, Dual USB-C Charger	5907481111094
US_CPSC	27056	2026-10-29	unknown	HAIARA Power Banks Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards…

Input: how do I filter recalls?

Every field is optional. Leave everything empty for all recalls from all three sources in the last 7 days (up to 50 rows).

Sources (sources)

EU_SAFETY_GATE, US_CPSC, US_FDA. All three by default.

Published in the last N days (publishedWithinDays)

Recalls published in the last N days, today included. Default 7, up to 3,660. EU Safety Gate publishes weekly reports (usually Fridays); CPSC is filtered by recall date and FDA by report date.

Published since (publishedSince)

Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD) instead of the last N days. At most 3,660 days per run.

Published until (publishedUntil)

Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD). Default today.

Keywords (keywords)

Any of these words in the title, product name or description, category, hazard, brand, model or company name. Case and accents are ignored; words are matched from their start, so lead doesn't match "pleaded".

Brands or companies (brands)

Any of these brands or companies (brand, company names, title or product name).

Barcodes (UPC / EAN / GTIN) (barcodes)

Any of these UPC / EAN / GTIN codes, compared as digits (UPC-A matches its EAN-13 form). Only recalls that publish a barcode can match.

Risk levels (riskLevels)

Only these normalised risk levels: serious, moderate, low, other, unknown. CPSC doesn't grade recalls, so CPSC rows are unknown.

FDA product types (fdaProductTypes)

food, drug, device. All three by default.

Max recalls (whole run) (maxResults)

Most recall rows per run. Default 50; 0 means no limit.

Max recalls per source (maxResultsPerSource)

Most recall rows per source. Default 0 (no cap). Sources are read in the order EU Safety Gate, CPSC, FDA, so set this if you want rows from every source.

Max Safety Gate weekly reports (maxSafetyGateReports)

Most Safety Gate weekly reports read per run, newest first. Default 8, up to 260.

Monitor mode (monitorMode)

Return only recalls you haven't had before. See How do I monitor new product recalls? below.

Return recalls on the first monitor run (emitBaselineOnFirstRun)

Default on. See How do I monitor new product recalls? below.

Monitor state store name (stateStoreName)

Named key-value store for monitor state. Use a different name per watch list. See How do I monitor new product recalls? below.

Output: what fields does each recall row have?

Every row has rowType. A recall row (recall) has source, sourceName, region, recallId, recallDate, publishedDate, title, productName, productDescription, productCategory, productType, brands, models, batchNumbers, barcodes, hazard, hazardTypes, riskLevel, riskLevelDetail, remedy, recallStatus, companies (name, role), soldAt, countries (notifying, origin, distribution), units, images, officialUrl, extra, licence, licenceUrl, attribution, disclaimer, changeType and retrievedAt. Fields a source doesn't publish are null or empty. Values shortened:

{
  "rowType": "recall",
  "source": "EU_SAFETY_GATE",
  "recallId": "SR/03044/26",
  "publishedDate": "2026-10-30",
  "title": "USB charger, X-start, Dual USB-C Charger",
  "brands": ["X-start"],
  "barcodes": ["5907481111094"],
  "productCategory": "Electrical appliances and equipment",
  "hazard": "The product lacks adequate insulation between the primary and secondary circuits. The USB ports and the connected cable can become live under mains voltage. …",
  "riskLevel": "serious",
  "riskLevelDetail": "Serious risk",
  "remedy": "Recall of the product from end users, by distributor, from 01/09/2026; …",
  "countries": { "notifying": "Hungary", "origin": ["People's Republic of China"], "distribution": null },
  "officialUrl": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10119402",
  "extra": { "weeklyReport": "Report-2026-43" },
  "licence": "CC0 1.0 (the weekly-report XML distribution, as listed on data.europa.eu); …"
}

How the sources map:

Field	EU Safety Gate	US CPSC	US FDA
recallId	Case number	Recall number	Recall number
publishedDate	Weekly report date	Last published date	Enforcement report date
riskLevel	Serious risk → serious, Other risk levels → other	unknown (not graded)	Class I → serious, II → moderate, III → low
companies	none published	manufacturers, importers, distributors	recalling company (FDA's recalling_firm field) with city, state and country
barcodes	as published	product UPCs, plus codes in the description when it mentions UPC/EAN/GTIN	codes in the product or code text when it mentions UPC/EAN/GTIN/NDC/UDI
officialUrl	alert page	recall page	openFDA API query for the recall number (FDA enforcement reports have no per-recall web page)

extra.onlineListings (Safety Gate) lists marketplace names and listing IDs where the product was found online.

Status rows (status, free): no_matches, no_new_recalls, scan_limit, source_error or budget_reached, each with a plain-English message.

The SUMMARY record in the default key-value store lists the input, rows per source, status counts, request counts and each source's licence, attribution and disclaimer. The dataset has views for Overview, Monitor: new recalls, and Status rows.

How do I monitor new product recalls?

Set monitorMode to true and schedule a saved task with your filters. The Actor remembers each recall ID it returns in the named key-value store stateStoreName (for 400 days) and, on later runs, returns only recalls it hasn't returned before (changeType: "new"). Updates to a recall already returned are not re-sent.

• emitBaselineOnFirstRun (default true) returns current matches on the first run. Set it to false to remember them silently, without charge, and get only later recalls.
• Use a different stateStoreName for each watch list.
• Set the date window to cover the gap between runs plus a margin (for example 14 days for a weekly run).

How much does it cost to search product recalls?

Pay per event:

Event	Price
Recall record returned	$0.002
Alert run with new recalls (monitor mode only, once per run that returns at least one)	$0.01
Actor start	$0.00005

Higher Apify plans get lower prices (shown on the Pricing tab). Status rows, the SUMMARY record and monitor runs with nothing new are free of record and alert charges. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options: the Actor stops before going over it and adds a free budget_reached row.

Data sources, licences and attribution

Every row carries its source's licence, licenceUrl and attribution. Rows are normalised by this Actor (field names, risk levels, dates, contact details removed), so they are modified from the original records. Product photos are linked, not copied; they may carry third-party rights.

Source	Feed	Licence or terms	Attribution (in every row's attribution)
EU Safety Gate	Weekly-report XML (data.europa.eu dataset)	CC0 1.0 for the XML distribution; Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU)	Alerts from the Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products, published free of charge on the Safety Gate website (https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts) © European Union, 2005 – 2026
US CPSC	Recalls API	US federal government work, public domain in the US (17 U.S.C. § 105)	Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls (cpsc.gov). Not endorsed by CPSC.
US FDA	openFDA enforcement reports	openFDA licence (CC0) and openFDA terms	Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (https://open.fda.gov). Not endorsed by FDA.

openFDA disclaimer

openFDA asks that its disclaimer goes with its data. Every FDA row carries it in disclaimer:

Do not rely on openFDA to make decisions regarding medical care. While we make every effort to ensure that data is accurate, you should assume all results are unvalidated. We may limit or otherwise restrict your access to the API in line with our Terms of Service.

Product and company data only

Rows hold product and company data. CPSC's consumer contact field is never copied, recalling companies' street addresses and postcodes are not copied from FDA records, and emails and phone numbers are removed from free text. Company names are returned as the source publishes them; a small recalling company can be a sole trader trading under its own name.

What are the limits?

• Sources: EU Safety Gate (non-food), US CPSC and US FDA only. UK and EU food alerts are not included.
• Date range: up to 3,660 days per run. EU Safety Gate is read one weekly report at a time (maxSafetyGateReports, default 8, up to 260), and a free scan_limit row says when older reports in the range were not read.
• FDA: at most 2,000 records per FDA dataset per run outside monitor mode (4,000 in monitor mode); keyword and brand filters are applied by openFDA first, so filtered runs read far fewer.
• Freshness: Safety Gate publishes weekly reports (usually Fridays) and FDA adds enforcement reports weekly, so the newest days can be empty for those sources. CPSC publishes recalls as they are announced.
• Pacing: CPSC and FDA are called at most once a second and Safety Gate once every 2 seconds.

Use the product recall API from code, spreadsheets or an AI agent

Run it with the Apify API or client libraries, schedule it, or connect it to Make, Zapier, Google Sheets or webhooks through Apify integrations. AI agents can call it through Apify's MCP server.

The examples below return at most 10 recalls (plus any free status rows) and set a maximum cost of $0.05 for the run, so trying them costs a few cents at most. Read your API token from an environment variable (APIFY_TOKEN) rather than pasting it into code.

JavaScript (Node.js)

// npm install apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('yourevenings/product-recalls').call(
  {
    "publishedWithinDays": 14,
    "keywords": [
      "charger",
      "power bank"
    ],
    "maxResults": 10
  },
  { maxTotalChargeUsd: 0.05 },
);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

# pip install "apify-client>=3"
import os
from decimal import Decimal
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("yourevenings/product-recalls").call(
    run_input={
        "publishedWithinDays": 14,
        "keywords": [
            "charger",
            "power bank"
        ],
        "maxResults": 10
    },
    max_total_charge_usd=Decimal("0.05"),
)
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

HTTP API (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/yourevenings~product-recalls/run-sync-get-dataset-items?maxTotalChargeUsd=0.05" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"publishedWithinDays": 14, "keywords": ["charger", "power bank"], "maxResults": 10}'

AI agents (MCP)

Add Apify's MCP server with just this Actor as a tool. On first connection your browser opens so you can sign in to Apify and approve access.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=yourevenings/product-recalls"
    }
  }
}

FAQ

Why is the CPSC risk level unknown? CPSC doesn't grade recalls by risk. Read the hazard field, or filter by keyword.

Why did FDA return nothing for the last few days? FDA adds enforcement reports weekly, so a short date window can fall between two updates. The no_matches row says so; widen the window to 14 days or more.

What happens if openFDA limits requests? openFDA is used without a key, and its limits are counted per IP address, which can be shared on Apify. If openFDA answers with a rate-limit error after retries, you get a free source_error row for FDA and the other sources carry on.

Does a barcode always find a recall? Only when the source publishes the barcode. Safety Gate and CPSC often do; FDA only when the code is written in the product or code text.

How do I get recalls from one source only? Set sources to the feeds you want, for example ["US_CPSC"]. For FDA, fdaProductTypes picks food, drug or device recalls.

Can I add another source? Open an issue with the source you need. A source is added only if it publishes official recall data that allows reuse without a login.

Feedback

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