About Recall Register
Recall Register is a register of United States recall notices. It puts the records of three agencies on one site, in the order of the dates that the agencies give.
What the register is for
A reader has a question about one vehicle, one product or one food. The agencies publish the answer on three different sites, one record at a time. This register shows those records together.
- NHTSA: 26,454 recall campaigns for vehicles, with complaints and investigations, by make, model and model year.
- NHTSA: 3,913 recall campaigns for child seats, tires and equipment, by brand.
- CPSC: 10,082 recalls of consumer products, by firm, hazard and product category.
- FDA: 27,823 enforcement events for food, drugs and devices, by recalling firm.
Each page shows the record in the words of the agency and has a link to the page of the agency. The front page lists the recalls of the last 14 days.
What the register leaves out
- An answer for one vehicle. A page is for a model year. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.
- Advice. The register does not tell a reader what to do or what to buy. An advisory on a page is the advisory of NHTSA.
- Rankings. The register gives no score and no rating. The findings pages order makes, hazards and firms by the number of recalls, campaigns, events or units. That order shows activity, not quality or safety. The agency files have no sales figures, so a count is not a rate.
- Pages about persons. When an agency record names a person as a firm, the register does not show the name.
- The text of complaints. The register shows the number of NHTSA complaints and the components that they name.
- Recalls of meat, poultry and egg products. The US Department of Agriculture publishes them. Data sources gives the reason.
How the pages are made
A program makes every record page from the agency files. It runs each day.
The program has one fixed sentence for each fact, for example the number of recall campaigns for a model year. It puts the figure from the file in the sentence. The same files always give the same text. No generative AI runs when the register is built.
The text of an agency stays as the agency published it. A defect summary, a hazard, a remedy and a reason for recall are quotations. A quotation has quotation marks and a different typeface, so a reader can see who speaks.
The sentence rules, the guides, the glossary and the pages about the register were drafted with an AI writing tool. Zippie is responsible for them. The date on each page is the date of its last check against the agency pages. How the register is made gives the rules in full.
Funding
The register is free to read. Zippie pays for it, and no page of the register shows an advertisement today. An advertisement, if shown, has a label. An advertiser cannot change a record, a count or the order of a list.
Publisher
Zippie publishes Recall Register. The postal address is Zippie DW2089, 2120 Hutton Drive, Suite 300-AIR, Carrollton, TX 75006. The telephone number of the publisher is +1 (405) 400-0651.
Recall Register is not a government site. NHTSA, CPSC and FDA do not endorse it.
The desk and corrections
The desk reads each report of an error. Send the address of the page and the value in the agency record to hello@recallregister.com. The desk answers in five working days. Corrections shows what the desk can correct and has the log.
Privacy
Vercel Web Analytics counts page views on the register, and Vercel Inc. processes the data.
The service records the page address, the page that sent the visitor, the browser and device type, the operating system and the city.
The service sets no cookie, writes nothing to the browser, builds no visitor profile and does not follow a visitor to other sites.
Vercel hosts the register and keeps ordinary server logs.
Both the watch list and the theme choice stay in the local storage of the browser, so the register never receives them.
Last checked against the agency pages: