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Highest-priority food and medical risks

Class I food and medical recalls only — the tier reserved for a reasonable probability of serious health consequences or death.

Consumer safety briefing & regulatory wire

Federal recall records, indexed as they publish

The registry ingests enforcement records from four federal agencies, normalizes the fields and preserves each agency's own hazard classification. Every record links back to the official notice.

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Index coverage

Records currently indexed

Counts reflect records held in the registry index right now, by source agency. They are read from the live index, not stored figures.

FDA records

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Food, drug and device enforcement

CPSC records

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Consumer products

NHTSA records

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Vehicle safety campaigns

USDA FSIS records

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Meat, poultry and egg products

Highest hazard classification

Critical health & safety risks

Records an agency has placed in its most serious hazard tier — FDA and FSIS Class I, NHTSA campaigns carrying a do-not-drive or park-outside instruction, and CPSC recalls citing death, fire or entrapment.

— in the last 7 days

Critical hazard ledger

Search all critical records

Elevated hazard classification

Recent high-severity recalls

Records in the second hazard tier, where the agency has identified a real risk of injury or a remedy that should not be deferred.

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Elevated hazard ledger

Why this index

What this does that an agency RSS feed does not

Four agencies publish four incompatible feeds, in formats written for compliance rather than for reading. The work here is in what happens between their output and your screen.

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Variant grouping

One contamination event can file as sixty near-identical records. We collapse them into a single card with a variant count — and the card always inherits the most severe classification in the group.

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One severity scale

FDA classes, NHTSA campaign warnings and CPSC hazard text compared on a single tier, so you can sort across all four agencies at once. The agency's own wording stays on every record.

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Readable records

Agency titles are legal text running past 300 characters. Ours are brand and product type. The full original is one click away on every record page.

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Documented limits

Where coverage is partial or a severity tier is inferred, our methodology page says so by name. An index you cannot audit is one you cannot trust.

Guides

Understanding and acting on recalls

A notice tells you a product was withdrawn. It rarely tells you how worried to be, who pays, or what to do about the one already in your house.

All guides

Classification

Recall classes explained

What Class I, II and III actually mean — and why two of the four agencies do not use classes at all.

Vehicles

Check your car for an open recall

Why make and model will not tell you, who pays for the repair, and the 15-year rule.

Food safety

A recalled food is in your kitchen

Matching lot codes, why cooking will not fix it, and the 70-day symptom window people miss.

Consumer guidance

Classifications, remedies and reporting

Each agency runs its own classification scheme under its own statute. A tier from one agency does not carry over to another. General information only, not legal advice.

Classification tiers

How FDA and FSIS rank hazard

FDA and USDA FSIS both classify recalls in three tiers based on the health consequence of exposure.

Class IHighest

Reasonable probability that use or exposure will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.

Class IIModerate

May cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or the probability of serious consequences is remote.

Class IIILow

Use or exposure is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.

Source: 21 CFR § 7.3(m). CPSC and NHTSA do not use this scheme — CPSC publishes hazard descriptions, and NHTSA issues safety recall campaigns that may carry a do-not-drive or park-outside warning.

Remedies

What you can generally expect

Vehicle recall repairs at no charge

Manufacturers must remedy a safety defect free of charge — by repair, replacement or refund — for vehicles sold within the past 15 years, and tires within 5 years. Outside those windows a manufacturer may charge, though many still repair at no cost.
49 U.S.C. § 30120(a), (g)(1)
CPSC corrective action plans

When CPSC announces a recall, the firm agrees to a corrective action plan that specifies the remedy. That remedy may be a repair, a replacement or a refund, and the firm generally selects it. Refunds are sometimes prorated by the age of the product.
15 U.S.C. § 2064(d); 16 CFR Part 1115
Recalled food returns

Federal law does not require a grocery retailer to refund recalled food, and no FDA or FSIS rule compels one. In practice most major chains do accept returns, often without a receipt, as a matter of store policy. Ask the retailer, and keep packaging and lot codes if you can.
Retailer policy, not a federal entitlement

Direct reporting

Report a defect to federal regulators

If you have experienced a product failure, vehicle defect or food contamination that is not already listed, report it to the agency directly. Consumer reports are a primary trigger for federal investigations.

US Recall Registry is an independent index. It does not receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints.