The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls hundreds of products every year -- from children's toys to power tools to household appliances. If you sell products, manage e-commerce inventory, or cover consumer safety, you need structured access to this data. The CPSC website is not built for that.
What is CPSC recall data?
The CPSC maintains a database of every consumer product recall issued in the United States. Each record includes the product name, manufacturer, hazard description, number of units affected, incidents and injuries reported, the remedy offered (refund, repair, replacement), and the recall date. This covers everything from cribs to space heaters to dietary supplements.
Who needs this?
- E-commerce platforms checking if listed products have been recalled
- Amazon and Walmart sellers monitoring recall exposure in their catalog
- Product liability attorneys researching recall history for litigation
- Insurance underwriters assessing product risk for manufacturers
- Consumer advocacy organizations tracking recall trends and enforcement gaps
- Supply chain managers screening imported goods against recall databases
The problem with manual access
The CPSC website lets you search recalls one at a time. There is a public API (cpsc.gov/Recalls/CPSC-Recalls-Application-Program-Interface), but it has limited filtering, inconsistent field naming, and no webhook or scheduling capability. If you need to monitor recalls daily for products in your catalog, or pull the full history of recalls for a specific manufacturer, you are stuck writing and maintaining custom integration code.
How the Apify actor solves it
The CPSC Product Recalls actor searches the full CPSC recall database and returns structured JSON. Search by product type, manufacturer, hazard type, date range, or keyword. Each result includes all recall fields: product description, hazard, remedy, units affected, incident counts, images, and retailer information.
Set it up on a daily schedule to catch new recalls within hours of publication. Pipe the output into your product database, your compliance dashboard, or your Slack channel.
Getting started
- Go to apify.com/pink_comic/cpsc-product-recalls
- Click Try for free
- Enter your search terms (product name, manufacturer, or keyword)
- Run the actor and get structured recall data
Pay-per-result pricing. No subscription required.
If you run an e-commerce business or manage product safety compliance, this turns a manual, error-prone process into an automated data feed. One less thing to forget to check.
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