About & Methodology
A fast, shareable way to search and track U.S. food and drug recalls — aggregated and normalized from official government sources.
Where the data comes from
Recall records are ingested directly from official feeds: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) openFDA Food and Drug Enforcement Report datasets and the USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) recall feed. We also link out to relevant CDC outbreak investigations, but CDC investigations are not themselves ingested as recall records.
How it stays current
An automated job pulls new and updated records from each source every 6 hours. The "last synced" time in the footer reflects the most recent successful run. Each recall links back to its authoritative source record so you can always verify the original.
How recalls are classified
We normalize each agency's fields into a common shape — recall class, hazard, affected products, and geography — and surface a plain-language risk summary. FDA recall classes (Class I/II/III) reflect the agency's own assessment of health risk; we present them, we do not assign them.
Important disclaimer
This is an independent tool, not an official government system of record and not affiliated with the FDA, USDA, or CDC. Data may lag or contain source errors. For health decisions, always confirm against the originating agency using the source link on each recall.