RecallDex — US Product Recall Database & Safety Checker
Recalled toys, food, drugs and vehicles from every US agency, gathered behind one search box.
One search box for every recall
US recall notices are split across agencies by product type — CPSC for consumer goods, FDA for food and medicines, NHTSA for anything on wheels. To find out whether a specific stroller or supplement is affected, you first need to know which agency to ask. RecallDex removes that step by aggregating notices from all four official sources into a single searchable database, explained in plain language.
Like the rest of my public-data platforms, it's an own product — mine from the first line of code to the search rankings.
Feature set
- Recall search by product name, brand or recall number.
- Agency filters across CPSC, FDA food, FDA drug and NHTSA sources.
- Safety Checker to test in seconds whether a given product has been recalled.
- Remedy and model details on every recall page, including affected units and manufacturer.
- Category and company browsing — from cribs and toys to the firms with the most recalls on record.
- Latest alerts feed with each recall's status, ongoing or completed.
What's inside the database
Per the site's own counters: 86,466 recalls indexed across four sources — 9,912 consumer product recalls (CPSC), 29,237 food (FDA), 17,815 drug (FDA) and 29,502 vehicle recalls (NHTSA). Some campaigns are huge: one Ford recall in the index spans 565,691 vehicles.
Behind the scenes
Merging four sources with four different formats into tens of thousands of clean records takes real backend work: a custom Laravel + PHP application with Alpine.js on the front end, over a normalized MySQL schema where every recall, category and firm resolves to its own fast URL.
Each of those URLs is a programmatic SEO page — generated metadata, structured data and internal linking at scale. No templates, no plugins, no CMS.
Proof points
- Genuine ETL: four official sources with clashing formats consolidated into one schema.
- Instant utility: a checker that answers in seconds against 86,000+ recall records.
- Indexable surface: tens of thousands of recall pages, each with its own URL and metadata.
Questions people ask
Which agencies feed RecallDex?
Four official US sources: the CPSC for consumer products, the FDA's food and drug divisions, and the NHTSA for vehicles.
How many recalls are indexed?
86,466+ in total — roughly 9,900 consumer product recalls, 47,000 food and drug recalls, and 29,500 vehicle recalls.
How can I tell whether something I own was recalled?
Run it through the built-in Safety Checker, then open the recall page for remedy details and the affected model numbers.
Who actually uses a site like this?
Parents double-checking a car seat, researchers tracking recall trends, and consumers who just heard about a recall on the news and want the specifics.
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