Recall Agencies
According to Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commission, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall feeds reviewed in August 2026 against our methodology, this directory indexes 104,158 product recall notices.
Federal sources that issue product-safety recalls in the United States. The live totals below show the number of notices PlainRecalls tracks for each source.
Multiple federal agencies share responsibility for monitoring product safety and issuing recalls when products pose risks to consumers. Each agency oversees a different category of consumer goods, from food and medications to vehicles and household items, and maintains its own database of enforcement actions, safety alerts, and voluntary recalls.
PlainRecalls aggregates recall data from these agencies into a single searchable database. Below you will find every federal agency whose recalls appear on this site, along with the number of recalls tracked for each. Click any agency to see its full recall history and the products it has flagged for safety concerns.
Read the totals against each agency's record window. The counts below are all-time totals over the years each agency's records begin, so a larger total can reflect a longer archive as well as more recalls. Agencies marked with a later start are compared on equal footing by the second figure, which counts every agency from 2015 onward.
FDA Medical Devices
39,794U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Medical device recalls
Records begin 2012 33,176 since 2015, the window every agency covers
FDA Food Safety
29,317U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Food recalls and safety alerts
Records begin 2012 23,030 since 2015, the window every agency covers
FDA Drug Safety
17,899U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Drug recalls and safety communications
Records begin 2012 14,526 since 2015, the window every agency covers
CPSC
8,254U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission — Consumer product recalls
Records begin 2000 3,629 since 2015, the window every agency covers
NHTSA
7,925National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — Vehicle safety recalls
Records begin 1995 (longest archive) 4,652 since 2015, the window every agency covers
USDA FSIS
1,234U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service — Meat and poultry recalls
Records begin 2014 1,132 since 2015, the window every agency covers