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GovInfoNow tracks U.S. product, food, drug, medical device and vehicle recalls from the FDA, CPSC, NHTSA and USDA. Every month we publish a Recall Report with the numbers and a CSV of the underlying records. You’re welcome to use them.

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How to cite

In text:

According to a GovInfoNow analysis of FDA, CPSC, NHTSA and USDA recall records, …

As a reference:

GovInfoNow. “September 2026 Recall Report.” GovInfoNow, Feral Cat, LLC. https://govinfonow.com/reports/2026-09. Accessed [date].

Please link to the month’s report page (or https://govinfonow.com/reports/latest for “the latest”) so readers can check the numbers. Recent months can still change as agencies post late records, so give the date you accessed it.

Reuse and embedding

  • Our reports, charts and CSVs are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Republish, chart, quote or remix them, commercially or not, with credit to “GovInfoNow” and a link.
  • Embedding: screenshots of our charts and tables are fine with the same credit and link. We don’t offer an iframe widget yet; ask if you need one.
  • The underlying agency records come from U.S. federal agencies and are public. Our plain-English recall summaries on individual recall pages are not part of the CC BY grant: quote short passages with credit and a link, and ask us before republishing them in bulk.
  • Don’t present GovInfoNow as a government source or imply an agency endorsed your story. For a specific recall, the official notice is the authority.

Methodology

Sources. FDA enforcement reports via openFDA (food, drugs, medical devices) plus FDA’s animal and veterinary recall list (pet food); the CPSC recalls API (consumer products); NHTSA’s recalls API (vehicles and equipment); and USDA FSIS recalls and public health alerts (meat, poultry and eggs). We pull them daily.

What a “recall” is here. One row is one agency record. FDA files a separate record for each product in a recall, so a single event covering 40 products counts 40 times; CPSC and NHTSA usually file one record per recall or campaign. Counts are therefore records, not events, and are best compared within an agency.

Which month. A record counts in the month the agency published it. For FDA that is the date of the weekly enforcement report that classified it, which often comes weeks or months after the company began the recall. For CPSC, NHTSA and USDA it is the recall date. Future-dated records are ignored. When a month’s last FDA weekly report isn’t in our data yet, the report says so and skips month-to-month comparisons.

Hazards. Each record goes into one hazard bucket by keywords in the reason the agency gave (for example “Listeria”, “undeclared milk”, “choking”, “fire”). The first matching bucket wins, in the order shown on each report; records that match none are “other or not stated”. This is a keyword sort, not an expert review.

Danger ratings. Our plain-English summaries, including the “stop using now / use caution / lower risk” rating, are written by an AI language model from the official record (see our editorial policy). Shares are computed over the records that have a rating; newer records may not be rated yet.

Brands and vehicles. Brand is the brand our summary names, or else the recalling firm as filed. Spellings are merged loosely (case, punctuation, “Inc.”/“LLC”), but different legal entities of one company may still appear separately. Vehicle make and model are NHTSA’s primary make and model for each campaign.

Limits. We may miss records an agency doesn’t publish through these feeds, and agencies revise records after the fact. For any individual recall, check the official notice linked from its page. Found an error? See corrections.

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