About RecallSweep

RecallSweep is an index of official US product recall notices. It pulls the public data feeds published by four federal agencies, normalizes them into one schema, and republishes them as a single searchable list. It does not issue recalls, evaluate them, or add findings of its own.

Where the data comes from

Every record in the feed originates from one of these government sources, and every entry on the site links back to the issuing agency's own notice:

Agency	Covers	Source feed	In the current window
CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission	consumer products — toys, furniture, appliances, electronics and sporting goods	www.cpsc.gov	303
FDA Food and Drug Administration	food, drugs, dietary supplements and medical devices	www.accessdata.fda.gov	2,700
NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	vehicles, tires, car seats and vehicle equipment	www.nhtsa.gov	462
FSIS USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service	meat, poultry and processed egg products	www.fsis.usda.gov	24

How often it updates

Two schedules keep the feed current. A Cloudflare Worker cron job re-runs the full ingest every six hours. A GitHub Actions workflow runs the same ingest once a day at 21:30 UTC — that second path exists because the USDA FSIS API rejects requests from datacenter IP ranges, so the FSIS portion of the feed is refreshed from GitHub's runners instead.

If a single agency's API fails during a run, that agency's previous records are carried forward rather than dropped, so one outage never blanks a section. The feed covers a rolling 180-day window; older notices age out of the site but remain on the agency's own site. This copy of the data was last refreshed July 27, 2026, and currently holds 3,489 recalls.

What the fields mean

Hazard — the agency's own description of the risk, reproduced as published.
Hazard tags — RecallSweep's own keyword grouping (for example "Fire & Burn", "Undeclared Allergen") applied to that text so the feed can be filtered. Tags are ours; the hazard wording underneath is the agency's.
Classification — the agency's severity grade where one is published. FDA Class I: reasonable probability that use will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. FDA Class II: use may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences. FDA Class III: use is not likely to cause adverse health consequences. NHTSA Do Not Drive advisory.
What to do — shown only for CPSC and NHTSA notices, which publish consumer instructions and corrective actions. FDA and USDA FSIS publish a workflow status instead (Ongoing, Completed, Terminated, Active recall, Closed), so those are labelled Recall status and never presented as advice.
Units — the affected quantity as reported by the agency, in the agency's own units.

Limits worth knowing

FDA enforcement reports have no per-record permalink. Those entries link to the FDA enforcement report database and name the recall number to search for.
Brand names are taken from the recalling firm or parsed from the notice title. Large firms appear under several spellings when the agencies spell them differently — the data is not rewritten to merge them.
Category assignment is keyword-based for CPSC notices and taken from the source feed for the others.
RecallSweep is an index, not the authority. Before acting on any recall — returning a product, stopping use of a vehicle, discarding food — confirm the details on the issuing agency's notice.

Contact

Corrections about how a notice is displayed here are welcome. Corrections to the underlying record itself have to go to the issuing agency, which owns the data.