Every FDA food and dietary-supplement enforcement report since 2004, 29,316 recalls, of which 12,867 are Class I, the most serious category, and 7,492 involve Listeria.

What does a recall include?

Product description, recall reason, recalling firm and location, distribution pattern, quantities, whether it was voluntary or mandated, notification method, classification and the initiation, report and termination dates.

Free text across products, reasons and firms, plus filters for classification, state, status, firm and date. Combining listeria with Class I, for example, returns about 6,100 recalls.

A nightly job re-syncs the last 120 days of reports from openFDA, catching new recalls and status changes such as terminations within a day.

Does it include USDA meat and poultry recalls?

No. Those are published by the USDA FSIS, not the FDA, and are outside this dataset. Drug recalls are in the Drugs API and consumer products in the Product Recalls API.

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Food Recalls API

All 29,316 FDA food and supplement recalls since 2004, with class, reason, firm and distribution, synced nightly

Every FDA food recall since 2004, searchable and synced nightly. All 29,316 food and dietary-supplement enforcement reports from openFDA — 12,867 of them Class I (serious risk of harm), 7,492 involving Listeria — each with product description, recall reason, recalling firm and location, distribution pattern, quantities, voluntary/mandated status, notification method, and initiation/report/termination dates. Search free-text across products, reasons and firms ('listeria' + Class I = 6,142 recalls), filter by classification, state, status, firm or date, look a recall up by its number, and pull aggregate stats by classification, year, state or status. A 120-day window re-syncs nightly, so new recalls and status changes (Ongoing → Terminated) land within a day. Completes our recalls suite alongside Product Recalls (CPSC), Vehicle Recalls (NHTSA) and the drug recalls inside the Drugs API: food-safety alerting, grocery and delivery apps, insurers, supply-chain compliance and newsrooms.

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response.json

{
  "ok": true,
  "recall": {
    "recall_number": "H-1219-2026",
    "event_id": "99325",
    "status": "Ongoing",
    "classification": "Class I",
    "product_description": "Selectos Latinos Requeson Mexicano Mexican Cottage Cheese, Net Weight 16 oz, packed into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated.",
    "reason": "Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.",
    "recalling_firm": "La Colonia Foods Llc",
    "city": "Rockville",
    "state": "MD",
    "country": "United States",
    "distribution": "The recalled product was distributed to the following states: MD, VA",
    "quantity": "169 (16-oz) units",
    "initiation_date": "2026-06-04",
    "report_date": "2026-08-12",
    "termination_date": null,
    "voluntary": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
    "notification": "E-Mail",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-06 19:57:20"
  }
}

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Use cases for Food Recalls API

Alert grocery, restaurant and food-service buyers to Class I recalls affecting products they stock.
Monitor a supplier or brand for recall history during vendor qualification.
Show recall notices next to products in a nutrition, shopping or allergy app.
Analyse recall trends by year, state, classification or contaminant for reporting and compliance.

Food Recalls API endpoints

Every endpoint with its parameters and a real example response.

OpenAPI definition Postman workspace

GETData Sources
GETRecall Lookup
GETRecall Stats
GETSearch Recalls

GETData Sources

https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl "https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "sources": [
    {
      "slug": "openfda-food",
      "name": "openFDA food enforcement reports",
      "publisher": "US Food and Drug Administration",
      "licence": "US government work (public domain)",
      "source_url": "https://open.fda.gov/apis/food/enforcement/",
      "file_url": "https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json",
      "cadence": "openFDA refreshes weekly; nightly 120-day window sync",
      "record_count": 29316,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-06"
    }
  ]
}

GETRecall Lookup

https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/food-recalls/{number}

Path parameters

Parameter	Example
number	H-1219-2026	Required

Example request

curl "https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/food-recalls/H-1219-2026" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "recall": {
    "recall_number": "H-1219-2026",
    "event_id": "99325",
    "status": "Ongoing",
    "classification": "Class I",
    "product_description": "Selectos Latinos Requeson Mexicano Mexican Cottage Cheese, Net Weight 16 oz, packed into retail-sized clear plastic containers. Keep refrigerated.",
    "reason": "Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.",
    "recalling_firm": "La Colonia Foods Llc",
    "city": "Rockville",
    "state": "MD",
    "country": "United States",
    "distribution": "The recalled product was distributed to the following states: MD, VA",
    "quantity": "169 (16-oz) units",
    "initiation_date": "2026-06-04",
    "report_date": "2026-08-12",
    "termination_date": null,
    "voluntary": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
    "notification": "E-Mail",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-06 19:57:20"
  }
}

GETRecall Stats

https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/food-recalls/stats

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
by	classification	Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/food-recalls/stats?by=classification" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "by": "classification",
  "stats": [
    {
      "group": "Class II",
      "recalls": 14704
    },
    {
      "group": "Class I",
      "recalls": 12867
    },
    {
      "group": "Class III",
      "recalls": 1745
    }
  ]
}

GETSearch Recalls

https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/food-recalls

Query parameters

Parameter	Example
classification	I	Optional
firm		Optional
page	1	Optional
q	listeria	Optional
since	2025-01-01	Optional
state	CA	Optional
status		Optional

Example request

curl "https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/food-recalls?classification=I&page=1&q=listeria&since=2025-01-01&state=CA" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 3,
  "total": 123,
  "total_pages": 41,
  "recalls": [
    {
      "recall_number": "H-0939-2026",
      "event_id": "98993",
      "status": "Ongoing",
      "classification": "Class I",
      "product_description": "HH Fresh Trading Corp. (branded) ENOKI MUSHROOM; Premium Quality; Net WT/ Poids Net 150g(5.29oz) Distributed by HH Fresh Trading Exported by JIA YANG INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES CO., LTD. Produced by Green Farm (Taiwan) UPC: 4711498860002",
      "reason": "Imported Enoki Mushrooms tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.",
      "recalling_firm": "HH FRESH TRADING CORP",
      "city": "Los Angeles",
      "state": "CA",
      "country": "United States",
      "distribution": "Product was distributed to a single customer located in Texas. Product was further distributed as samples were collected in Florida.",
      "quantity": "120 cases",
      "initiation_date": "2026-05-11",
      "report_date": "2026-06-17",
      "termination_date": null,
      "voluntary": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
      "notification": "Telephone",
      "updated_at": "2026-09-06 19:57:20"
    },
    {
…

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{
  "ok": true,
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 3,
  "total": 123,
  "total_pages": 41,
  "recalls": [
    {
      "recall_number": "H-0939-2026",
      "event_id": "98993",
      "status": "Ongoing",
      "classification": "Class I",
      "product_description": "HH Fresh Trading Corp. (branded) ENOKI MUSHROOM; Premium Quality; Net WT/ Poids Net 150g(5.29oz) Distributed by HH Fresh Trading Exported by JIA YANG INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES CO., LTD. Produced by Green Farm (Taiwan) UPC: 4711498860002",
      "reason": "Imported Enoki Mushrooms tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.",
      "recalling_firm": "HH FRESH TRADING CORP",
      "city": "Los Angeles",
      "state": "CA",
      "country": "United States",
      "distribution": "Product was distributed to a single customer located in Texas. Product was further distributed as samples were collected in Florida.",
      "quantity": "120 cases",
      "initiation_date": "2026-05-11",
      "report_date": "2026-06-17",
      "termination_date": null,
      "voluntary": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
      "notification": "Telephone",
      "updated_at": "2026-09-06 19:57:20"
    },
    {
      "recall_number": "H-0898-2026",
      "event_id": "99001",
      "status": "Ongoing",
      "classification": "Class I",
      "product_description": "Enoki Mushroom, Net Weight 150g; Product of Korea; Distributed by IQ Produce UPC: 8809316 814286",
      "reason": "Imported Enoki Mushrooms samples collected by Florida Department of Health tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.",
      "recalling_firm": "IQ PRODUCE, LLC",
      "city": "Vernon",
      "state": "CA",
      "country": "United States",
      "distribution": "Product was distributed to 3 California customers.",
      "quantity": "319 units",
      "initiation_date": "2026-05-14",
      "report_date": "2026-06-10",
      "termination_date": null,
      "voluntary": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
      "notification": "Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Rele",
      "updated_at": "2026-09-06 19:57:20"
    },
    {
      "recall_number": "H-0686-2026",
      "event_id": "98725",
      "status": "Ongoing",
      "classification": "Class I",
      "product_description": "Black label with blue lettering. FOOD Korean Food, ENOKI MUSHROOM, 150g clear plastic package; Product of Korea, Keep Refrigerated. Distributed by Hemu Trading Inc. UPC: 8801234567893",
      "reason": "product tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes.",
      "recalling_firm": "HEMU TRADING INC",
      "city": "Los Angeles",
      "state": "CA",
      "country": "United States",
      "distribution": "5 direct account consignees located in CA, FL and MD.",
      "quantity": "1056 cases (34 packs/case)",
      "initiation_date": "2026-04-02",
      "report_date": "2026-05-06",
      "termination_date": null,
      "voluntary": "Voluntary: Firm initiated",
      "notification": "Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Rele",
      "updated_at": "2026-09-06 19:56:34"
    }
  ]
}

Where the data comes from

Source: openFDA food enforcement reports (public domain).
Freshness: Nightly sync of the trailing 120 days of reports.

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import axios from 'axios';

const { data } = await axios.get(
  'https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources',
  { headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.API_KEY } }
);

Food Recalls API · X-Api-Key

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Available Endpoints

Request Parameters

API URL

Headers

X-Api-Key

Target:

Client:

import axios from 'axios';

const url = 'https://api-food-recalls.dataandapis.com/v1/sources';
const { data } = await axios.get(url, {
  headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' }
});