The recall wire · as the agencies publish them
Pulled off
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 and no server in the middle.
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.
Nothing the wire is carrying matches that.
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.
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.