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CPSC Product Recalls

Consumer product recall records for building bounded product-safety lookups and owner-notification tools.

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At a Glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Tiny · ≤0.05 GB
Formats
JSON, XML
Access
API
API Key
Not Required
Provider
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Updates
Daily
Last Verified
Aug 18, 2026
Source Type
Government Source
Data Terms
U.S. Government public data / federal copyright guidance
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From Source to Product Signal

Test a Product Idea in Four Steps

CPSC's Recall Retrieval service returns consumer product recalls as JSON. Start with a short date window; an unfiltered request can return the entire catalog. A recall record is not a current inventory check, and date parameters must be spelled exactly.

1

Check the Setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • A notebook environment such as Jupyter or Google Colab
  • An internet connection
2

Access the Data

  1. 1.Open the CPSC recalls page and note that the retrieval service lives on saferproducts.gov.
  2. 2.Query JSON for a bounded recall-date window.
  3. 3.Keep recall numbers, titles, and dates before summarizing hazards.
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3

Run the Python Example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install pandas requests

import pandas as pd
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://www.saferproducts.gov/RestWebServices/Recall",
    params={
        "format": "json",
        "RecallDateStart": "2025-01-01",
        "RecallDateEnd": "2025-03-31",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
response.raise_for_status()
recalls = pd.DataFrame(response.json())
recalls["retrieved_at_utc"] = pd.Timestamp.now(tz="UTC")
print(recalls[["RecallNumber", "Title", "RecallDate"]].head(20))
4

Test a Useful Signal

Summarize First-Quarter Consumer Product Recalls

Identify which product titles appear most often in a bounded CPSC recall window.

  1. 01Confirm the request used RecallDateStart and RecallDateEnd rather than an unfiltered dump.
  2. 02Count recalls by month and inspect a sample of titles and hazards.
  3. 03State that CPSC recalls are not vehicle or food-enforcement records and that remedy status can change after publication.

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Dataset Details

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is a government source. Last verified 2026-08-18. Temporal coverage: 1973-present.

Geography

United States

Formats

JSONXML

Provider

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Data Terms

U.S. Government public data / federal copyright guidance

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