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Check a product, watch new recalls land, or search the full federal archive. Every tool queries the same live index, no paywall, no account.

Download the category-level recall summary cited on this page: plainrecalls-category-summary.csv (U.S. CPSC, FDA, USDA FSIS and NHTSA public notices · CC0).

PlainRecalls offers three free, no-sign-up tools to check for recalls: the Recall Checker, the live RecallRadar feed, and full-field Recall Search.

PlainRecalls gives you three free tools, all querying the same live index of 104,423 federal product recalls from 4 agencies, current to Aug 26, 2026. The Recall Checker tells you instantly whether a product is recalled, RecallRadar streams new recalls as agencies publish them with RSS alerts, and Recall Search runs full-text queries across every product, brand, hazard and reason field. No account, no paywall.

  • 104,423 recalls indexed
  • 4 federal agencies
  • Aug 26, 2026 last updated

What you're searching

Every tool queries the same live index of 104,423 product recalls drawn from 4 federal agencies, current to Aug 26, 2026.

104,423
recalls indexed
4
federal agencies
Aug 26, 2026
last updated
Recall Checker · Is my product recalled?

Type any product, brand, or model and instantly see whether it appears in the 104,423-record federal recall archive, with the hazard, the remedy, and a link to the official notice.

Check a product →
RecallRadar · Live recall feed

The newest recalls as agencies publish them, filter by agency and severity, and subscribe by RSS so high-risk recalls reach you the day they post.

Open the live feed →
Recall Search · Search every field

Full-text search across product names, brands, manufacturers, hazards, and reasons, the deep query tool when you need to find every related notice.

Open search →

How complete is a lookup?

Share of the 104,423-record archive carrying each independently verifiable field

% of recalls

What this shows At least 17% of recalls carry every layer below: hazard and reason are nearly universal; official agency URLs are sparse, so a checker match may still need a follow-up on the notice itself.

Source PlainRecalls live archive (FDA, CPSC, USDA FSIS & NHTSA) As of Aug 26, 2026

What gets recalled most

The six product categories with the most records in the live archive

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What this shows Medical devices, food and drugs dominate the federal recall archive, the categories the tools search most.

Source FDA, CPSC, USDA FSIS & NHTSA enforcement data
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Latest recalls in the feed

The newest records the tools are searching right now, current to Aug 26, 2026.

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When recalls happen

Distinct recall events across the FDA, CPSC, USDA FSIS and NHTSA, 2010–2025, the archive every tool searches

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Counts reflect market size and reporting activity, not inherent danger, we do not rank products by risk from raw recall volume.

Start here

Three ways to act on the recall data right now.

  • Worried about something you own? Check it against the full federal archive in seconds. Recall checker
  • Want to stay ahead? Watch the live feed and subscribe to high-severity recalls by RSS. Live feed
  • Researching a pattern? See the most-recalled companies and years. Rankings

About this data

All tools read the same public-domain federal recall data, the FDA openFDA Enforcement API, CPSC Recalls, USDA FSIS Recalls, and NHTSA Recalls. Read our methodology →

Every figure on PlainRecalls is rendered directly from official FDA, CPSC, USDA FSIS and NHTSA recall records; no number is typed in by an editor. Every tool reads the same federal recall archive live, results reflect the records as they were last refreshed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 26, 2026.