US Product Recall Monitoring & Risk Scoring API

Monitor public CPSC and openFDA recall records, filter products or brands, and export risk-scored records with official evidence links. Product-safety, compliance, catalog, marketplace, and supplier-risk teams. Prioritize recall review queues, watch brands and products, and retain official evidence for internal follow-up.

What it does

This Actor normalizes the supported evidence into a default Apify dataset and keeps the original source reference with each buyer-visible result. Its buyer-value event is recall-alert; it uses Apify pay-per-event pricing, so inspect the current Pricing tab and begin with a small validation run.

Supported sources and boundary

• CPSC Recall API
• openFDA device recall API
• buyer-supplied public or authorized JSON recall URLs

Only the sources and buyer inputs listed above are supported. The Actor does not bypass login, CAPTCHA, paywalls, robots restrictions, private APIs, or any other access control. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with the named source platforms or authorities.

Inputs

• watchlistTerms — Optional product or brand terms. Use this, sample mode, and maxItems for a small first run.
• maxItems — Maximum records to write for a bounded run. Full-source production runs can return many records.
• startUrls — Optional public or buyer-authorized recall JSON URLs.

Existing saved-task fields remain accepted for backward compatibility. Use Apify's maximum run-charge limit for any live validation run.

Buyer-ready output

• recordId
• productName
• brand
• signalType
• riskScore
• confidence
• recommendedAction
• sourceUrl
• retrievedAt

Every output preserves source provenance where the input or public source provides it. Unsupported sources return an explicit boundary error instead of an invented record.

First run

{
    "sourceMode": "sample",
    "watchlistTerms": [
        "portable heater"
    ],
    "maxItems": 1
}

The bundled first-run example is a labelled deterministic demonstration, not proof of current live coverage:

{
    "evidenceType": "deterministic_demo",
    "productName": "Illustrative consumer product recall record",
    "signalType": "consumer_product_recall",
    "riskScore": 78,
    "confidence": 0.9,
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls"
}

API, dataset, schedules, and webhooks

Use the Apify API or default dataset for programmatic retrieval. Save an input as an Apify task to schedule recurring runs. If the current input schema exposes webhookUrl, it can notify a buyer-controlled endpoint after a completed run; otherwise use Apify webhooks for the task or run.

Common use cases

• Build a source-linked internal review queue.
• Compare repeated signals across a buyer watchlist.
• Export normalized JSON or CSV for an approved downstream workflow.

Limitations and responsible use

This tool does not replace regulatory, legal, clinical, or medical review. Source availability and record completeness remain the responsibility of the originating authority.

Support

Include the Actor run ID, the input field names (not secrets), an example source URL when authorized, and the observed output field when contacting Zentra support. Check the current Pricing and API tabs before production-scale runs.