U.S. recall statistics

Recalls per year by agency, severity, and hazard — computed from the full official databases.

• In 2025, U.S. agencies logged 575 FDA food enforcement events, 67 USDA-FSIS meat/poultry recalls and alerts, 420 CPSC consumer product recalls, and 997 NHTSA vehicle recall campaigns, as of July 25, 2026.
• Combined food recalls (FDA + FSIS) in 2025: 642 events, 272 of them Class I.
• The largest USDA-FSIS recall on record here by weight is Sanderson Farms Recalls Poultry Products Due To Possible Foreign Matter Contamination — 8,199,872 pounds (September 24, 2015).

Counts are recall events (FDA product entries grouped by event ID), from the full databases mirrored nightly: openFDA enforcement (2012+), USDA-FSIS (2014+, English notices), CPSC (2000+), NHTSA (2010+). Click a year for the detailed breakdown. Methodology on the about page.

Recalls per year, by agency

Download: recall-statistics-by-year.csv (CSV, updated nightly).

Largest USDA-FSIS recalls on record, by pounds

From the quantity-recovered field of the FSIS recall API (2014–present).

Hazard pages: Listeria · Salmonella · E. coli · undeclared allergens