Where our data comes from
Last updated: October 24, 2026
Sources
- Children’s product recalls come from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s public Recalls API. We use every notice CPSC has published since January 1, 2010 that involves a children’s product or describes a hazard to children. Each recall page links to the official notice on cpsc.gov.
- Car seat recalls come from NHTSA’s public recall data file, filtered to child seat recalls since 2010. Each page links to the official recall on nhtsa.gov.
Both are U.S. government sources. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by CPSC or NHTSA, and we don’t use their logos.
What we change and what we don’t
Text shown in quotes on recall pages (the problem, injuries, remedy, product description and contact details) is the agency’s own wording. NHTSA’s file is in capital letters, so we show it in sentence case. Photos on recall pages are CPSC’s and are loaded from cpsc.gov.
What we add:
- Product types, ages and hazard groups. We sort each notice by the words it uses. For example, a notice that mentions choking goes in the choking group. Ages describe who a product type is usually for, not what is printed on a given product. The grouping is ours and can be wrong; the official notice always wins.
- Company pages for companies named in three or more children’s product recalls. We combine obvious spelling variants of the same company name.
- Older recalls (before 2010) are listed on product type pages and link straight to CPSC.
We check a sample of the grouping by hand and correct mistakes. If you spot one, email pa@ahdeck.com.
How often it’s updated
We check for new notices every week. The footer of every page shows the date of the newest CPSC and NHTSA recall we hold. New notices may appear on cpsc.gov and nhtsa.gov before they appear here, so for the latest information, check the agency sites.
If you can’t find your product
That means it isn’t in the recall data we hold as of the date in the footer. It doesn’t tell you anything else about the product. You can also search CPSC, NHTSA and SaferProducts.gov, and register your products so the company can contact you.