Recalls per year by agency, severity, and hazard - computed from the full official databases.
In 2025, U.S. agencies logged 574 FDA food enforcement events, 67 USDA-FSIS meat/poultry recalls and alerts, 420 CPSC consumer product recalls, and 994 NHTSA vehicle recall campaigns, as of .
Combined food recalls (FDA + FSIS) in 2025: 641 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 ().
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. Monthly charts end at
the last complete month, and agencies backfill their feeds, so the newest months can still
rise in later updates. Methodology on the about page.
Current-year food recall pulse
Like-for-like calendar dates through . These are posted FDA
enforcement events and USDA-FSIS recalls or public-health alerts, not a count of affected products.
Food recall events, 2026 to date443FDA + USDA-FSIS through
Same-date change-14%14% lower than the same dates last year
Class I food events, 2026 to date176Highest-risk FDA / USDA-FSIS class
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Food recall events per month (FDA enforcement + USDA-FSIS), last 36 monthsNHTSA vehicle recall campaigns per month, last 36 full months (current month omitted until complete)
"How many food recalls were there last year?" gets different answers from
different sources, and all of them can be right about their own metric. Counts
differ because sources count different things: FDA enforcement events
(what this site counts - FDA-classified recalls grouped by event, weeks after
they start), FDA press announcements (company announcements FDA posts;
many recalls never get one), per-product entries (one event can span
dozens of products - counting rows can triple the number), and fiscal vs
calendar years (FDA's own dashboard uses October–September fiscal years).
USDA-FSIS is a separate system on top of that, and its public-health alerts
are not technically recalls. When citing this site, say "FDA food enforcement
events, grouped by recall event, calendar year" - the number is reproducible
from the CSV.
Largest USDA-FSIS recalls on record, by pounds
From the quantity-recovered field of the FSIS recall API (2014–present).