About RecallNow
RecallNow exists for one reason: so anyone can find out, in seconds and for free, whether something in their home has been recalled.
Independent and non-commercial
We are not a company selling a service to brands, and we are not affiliated with any manufacturer, retailer or trade group. There is no advertising on this site, no sponsored placement, and no way to pay to change how a recall appears here. Nothing on a recall page is negotiable, because there is nobody to negotiate with.
Where the information comes from
Every notice on RecallNow is published by a U.S. federal agency — the Food and Drug Administration, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, or the Consumer Product Safety Commission. We collect those notices continuously, keep the full history even after an agency drops a notice from its own site, and link back to the original so you can always read the source.
We read more than one publication from each agency, because they do not all appear at the same time. The FDA's weekly enforcement report is usually the first place a company-initiated recall is published — often one to three weeks before it reaches the FDA's own data files — so those notices are here from the week the FDA posts them, including ones the agency has not yet assigned a risk level. When a risk level or any other detail is later revised, the page is updated and shows the date it changed.
We do not decide what is dangerous and we do not write recalls. When we summarize a notice, the summary sits beside the agency's own words, never in place of them.
What we are not
RecallNow is not a government agency, and this site is not an official government publication. For legal notices, enforcement action, or the definitive status of a recall, always go to the issuing agency.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, incomplete, or out of date — including if you represent a company named in a notice — tell us and we will fix it. Write to info@recallnow.org.