About
What this site is
The Recall Desk aggregates US product recalls from the FDA, USDA FSIS, CPSC, NHTSA, and EPA and rewrites the official notices into plain English. Severity is scored 1–5 from objective criteria. Every recall page links back to the original government notice.
Editorial principles
- Neutral voice
- We translate, we don’t editorialize. We avoid scare language and speculation. If the source notice is ambiguous, we say so rather than guess.
- Verification first
- Every page shows the agency, the recall number, and the source URL prominently. If our summary ever conflicts with the source notice, the source notice wins.
- No commerce
- No ads. No affiliate links. No paid placement. No sponsored content. No tracking pixels in alert emails. We don’t rank manufacturers and we don’t link to retailer pages.
- No hallucination
- Our LLM rewrites are grounded in the source recall text. We never invent lot numbers, dates, distribution scope, or affected-unit counts. If a fact isn’t in the source, that field is left blank on our page.
- Plain English
- We’re writing for shoppers, parents, and drivers — not lawyers. Technical regulatory language is preserved on the source page; our rewrite is the version a hurried reader will understand on first pass.
Where to go next
- How severity is scored — the rubric we apply to every recall.
- Our data sources — agency endpoints + last-ingested timestamps.
- Browse all recalls — filter by category, agency, severity.
- Get recall alerts by email — double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe.
The Recall Desk is independent. We are not affiliated with the FDA, USDA, CPSC, NHTSA, EPA, or any other government agency.
Always defer to the original agency notice. Recall details, contact information, and remedy instructions on this site are convenience copies of the agency text and may lag behind the source.