FDA, CPSC and USDA product recalls — newest first
the shelves.
One wire for US product recalls: the FDA’s enforcement register for food, drugs and devices, the USDA’s FSIS notices for meat, poultry and egg products, and the CPSC’s consumer-product recalls — merged newest first, each card stamped with its agency, its hazard, its recall number and, where the agency assigns one, its federal class. Read live off the agencies’ own registers by this page, in your browser, with no key. When the USDA register turns your browser away, a small relay on this site asks it in your place, and a copy kept from an earlier read is always shown with its date.
The one thing to understand before reading it: these are recalls as the agencies publish them, not as they happen. On the FDA’s food register the gap between a firm starting a recall and the FDA publishing the entry ran a median of 40 days across the five thousand newest records — measured by this build, not quoted from anywhere. Each FDA card carries both dates so the gap is visible, not hidden.
3 agencies · 5 live registers · FDA Class I/II/III explained · no key, no account
The wire
Every register. One list.
The newest entries from each register, merged and dated. An FDA or USDA card carries the federal class meter — Class I is the one that can kill you — and every card says which register it came off and under what number, so it can be checked against the agency’s own page.
The wire
waiting for the registers
Nothing on the wire yet.
Not read yet.
The lookup
Is it on the wire?
One word of a product name — cheese, ibuprofen, stroller — searched across everything the wire is carrying: product, hazard, firm and recall number alike. This searches the newest slice each register publishes, loaded above — it is not a search of the agencies’ full archives, which run back decades.
Lookup
A link to a search: #find=listeria after this page’s address.
Vehicles are not on this wire — NHTSA files them by make, model and year. Check a vehicle’s recalls by its VIN →
Nothing the wire is carrying matches that.
Overview
Latest US recalls: FDA, USDA and CPSC, newest first
This page reads five federal recall registers from your browser and merges them into one list, newest first: the FDA’s enforcement reports for food, drugs and medical devices through openFDA, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service register for meat, poultry and egg products, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recalls of toys, appliances, furniture and other consumer goods. No key, no account. Your browser asks each agency directly; only when the USDA register turns it away does a small relay on this site ask in its place, and a copy kept from an earlier read is shown with its date. Each card names its agency and, where the register gives them, the product, the reason or hazard, the firm and the recall number, so it can be checked against the agency’s own record; FDA and USDA cards also carry the federal Class I, II or III where the agency assigns one.
It carries the hundred newest entries from each FDA register, this year’s and last year’s FSIS notices, and the last ninety days of CPSC recalls, and re-reads them every thirty minutes while you watch. Filter the wire by agency, or search a word — cheese, ibuprofen, stroller — across product, hazard, firm and recall number. The search covers what the wire has loaded, not the agencies’ full archives. The FSIS register turns away many automated readers, so USDA recalls and public health alerts appear live only when it answers your browser or this site’s relay; otherwise the page shows the last good copy with the date it was read, or says that it has none.
What it does not do: vehicle recalls are NHTSA’s and are not on this list. A recall appears here when the agency publishes it, not when the firm starts pulling the product, which is why FDA cards show both the initiated and the published date. Nothing is scored or estimated, and a register that will not answer is reported as exactly that. For the rest of the federal record, Rules reads today’s Federal Register.
About
Four registers, three carried.
The federal government publishes product recalls in four main registers, and this page carries three of them, each read directly from the agency. The FDA’s enforcement register (openFDA) covers food, drugs and medical devices, and is the only one that carries the formal classification and both dates. USDA FSIS covers meat, poultry and egg products; its register also lists public health alerts, which the wire carries marked as what they are. The CPSC covers consumer products — the toys, appliances and furniture register — and assigns no class, so its cards carry the hazard sentence instead.
The fourth register is NHTSA’s, for vehicles, and it is not carried: NHTSA publishes recall lookups by make and model, not a recent-first feed, and the endpoints that would list new campaigns refused every request this build made. Rather than fake a vehicles column from nothing, the wire says plainly that vehicles are not on it. For one vehicle, the VIN Decoder reads NHTSA’s campaigns for its make, model and year.
The wire shows recalls as the agencies publish them, never “as they happen.” Publication lags initiation: a firm starts pulling product, the agency inspects, classifies and then publishes, and on the FDA food register that gap measured a median of 40 days over the five thousand newest entries (mean 45; one in ten took over 69 days, and the slowest surfaced years on). That is why FDA cards carry an initiated date and a published date side by side.
The class system, in the FDA’s own terms: Class I — reasonable probability that use will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. Class II — may cause temporary or medically reversible harm; serious harm is remote. Class III — not likely to cause adverse health consequences. FSIS uses the same three stops; CPSC uses none. What a register does not say, a card does not invent: no severity is scored here, no counts are estimated, and a register that will not answer is reported as exactly that. The wire re-reads every thirty minutes while you watch. Your agency filter is remembered in this browser and nowhere else.