Product Recalls & Safety Alerts Monitor — ANZ, US & EU

One unified, normalised feed of official product recalls and safety alerts across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the European Union, refreshed on every scheduled run. Nine government sources, one consistent record shape, and only new recalls are emitted — so every dataset item is an actionable event, not a re-scrape.

Most recall scrapers cover a single agency, which leaves you stitching together CPSC, FDA, Safety Gate and the ANZ regulators yourself, each with its own field names and dedupe problem. This actor is the unified feed: pick your regions, get one schema.

Sources:

Source	source	Region	Coverage
ACCC Product Safety (productsafety.gov.au)	accc	AU	Consumer products — toys, appliances, vehicles, electronics
TGA safety alerts (tga.gov.au)	tga	AU	Medicines, medical devices, supplements
Medsafe recall actions (medsafe.govt.nz)	medsafe	NZ	Medicines and medical devices
MPI / NZ Food Safety (mpi.govt.nz)	mpi	NZ	Food recalls
CPSC (SaferProducts.gov)	cpsc	US	Consumer products — the US counterpart to ACCC
FDA enforcement reports (openFDA)	fda-food	US	Food, beverages, supplements, animal feed
FDA enforcement reports (openFDA)	fda-drug	US	Human and veterinary medicines
FDA enforcement reports (openFDA)	fda-device	US	Medical devices and diagnostics
EU Safety Gate / RAPEX (ec.europa.eu)	eu-safetygate	EU	Dangerous non-food products across all EU/EEA member states

All nine sources are official government open data — no ToS risk in your compliance chain, and no API keys required. (An optional openFDA key is supported if you run very frequently; see the input table.)

Regions default to ANZ. Set regions to ["ANZ", "US", "EU"] — or pick sources explicitly — to widen coverage. Nothing changes for existing runs unless you ask for it.

Example output record

{
  "source": "accc",
  "sourceId": "c09b530a-0353-4de5-8669-b2a29adcade3",
  "region": "AU",
  "title": "Basco BFO-15671 oil filter for diesel engines",
  "productNames": ["Basco BFO-15671 oil filter for diesel engines"],
  "brand": null,
  "hazard": "Risk of death, serious injury or property damage (including to other road users) from an accident if the filter loosens or comes off the engine while the vehicle is being driven...",
  "recallDate": "2026-08-27",
  "url": "https://www.productsafety.gov.au/search-consumer-product-recalls/basco-bfo-15671-oil-filter-for-diesel-engines",
  "categories": ["Car parts and accessories"],
  "detectedAt": "2026-08-31T01:22:44Z"
}

Notes on the shape: sourceId is stable per source (dedupe key), productNames lists every product covered by one recall action (Medsafe recalls often span several products), and recallDate is null for MPI records because the MPI listing publishes dates only on detail pages — detectedAt always tells you when the monitor first saw the recall.

Per-source specifics worth knowing:

• CPSC — sourceId is the CPSC RecallID; brand comes from the recall's manufacturer when CPSC publishes one (about a fifth of recalls), and categories is empty because CPSC currently ships its product-type field blank.
• FDA — sourceId is the FDA recall number, recallDate is openFDA's report_date, and categories is [product type, classification], e.g. ["Food", "Class I"]. openFDA has no per-recall notice page, so url is the openFDA permalink for that recall number. Enforcement reports published before FDA assigns a recall number ("Not Yet Classified") are held back until the number exists, because it is the dedupe key — they arrive a few weeks later rather than twice.
• EU Safety Gate — sourceId is the Safety Gate alert id and url links the official alert page. Safety Gate publishes one report every Friday, so recallDate is that week's publication date — the export carries no per-alert date. categories is [product category, risk type], e.g. ["Jewellery", "Chemical"].

Input options

Field	Type	Default	Description
sources	array	four ANZ	Which sources to monitor: accc, tga, medsafe, mpi, cpsc, fda-food, fda-drug, fda-device, eu-safetygate
regions	array	["ANZ"]	Region shortcut — ANZ, US, EU. Ignored when sources is set
keywords	array	[]	Case-insensitive filter on title + product names; empty = everything
sinceDays	integer	30	First-run backfill window in days
maxItems	integer	500	Cap on records emitted per run (overflow emits next run)
fdaApiKey	string (secret)	empty	Optional. The FDA sources work keyless within openFDA's limits (240 req/min, 1,000/day per IP); a free key raises the daily ceiling to 120,000

A global run is higher volume than an ANZ-only one — a 30-day backfill across all nine sources returns several hundred records, most of them FDA device and EU Safety Gate alerts. Raise maxItems for the first backfill, or narrow with keywords.

How to use it

Schedule the actor (daily or every few hours). The first run backfills the last sinceDays days; every later run emits only recalls it has never seen before, so you can wire the dataset straight into Zapier/Make, a Slack webhook, or your own ingestion without any dedupe logic on your side.

Use cases

• Compliance & product safety teams — "global recall monitoring": one scheduled feed replaces manually checking nine government sites across three jurisdictions; filter with keywords for your brands or ingredient names.
• Insurers & underwriters — "product recall alerts insurance": early signal on hazards (fire, injury, undeclared allergens) affecting insured product categories, with the official hazard wording attached.
• Marketplaces & retailers — "screen listings recalled products": match productNames and brand against your catalogue to pull recalled stock before regulators or customers find it. A product pulled by CPSC or Safety Gate is usually on your ANZ listings too.
• Importers & supply chain — a product recalled in the US or EU is a leading indicator for the same SKU in AU/NZ; watching all three regions gives you weeks of warning instead of none.

Failure handling & update promise

• One source being down or redesigned never kills a run: the source is logged as degraded and every other source still delivers.
• Schema drift is logged with the exact missing field, never a crash.
• Source markup is re-checked and fixtures refreshed on a regular cadence; parser fixes ship as patch releases.

Pricing events

Event	Price	Charged
actor-start	$0.005	once per run
recall-detected	$0.02	per NEW recall emitted

Low volume by design — you pay for coverage, not bulk. A typical quiet day across the four ANZ sources is a handful of events; a global run sees more, so set maxItems to the ceiling you are comfortable paying for.

Changelog

• 0.2 (2026-08-31) — global expansion: US CPSC, US FDA (fda-food/fda-drug/fda-device) and EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) added behind the regions input, plus an optional fdaApiKey. Additive only — the default input still runs the four ANZ sources and the record shape is unchanged.
• 0.1 (2026-08-31) — initial release: ACCC, TGA, Medsafe, MPI; monitor state in a named key-value store; keyword filter, backfill window, per-run item cap.