Looking things up is free. Being told is the part we’re building.

What we watch, and what we don’t

Monitoring covers durable children’s things — cots and bassinets, car seats, swings and bouncers, carriers and pushchairs, toys, children’s clothing and nursery furniture. Car seat recalls come from NHTSA, which regulates child restraints; the rest come mostly from CPSC.

We don’t watch medicines and medical devices, food and vehicles.

• Medicines and medical devices — the form declines them and points you at the agency that handles them
• Food — same — declined at the point of entry, not accepted and half-checked
• Vehicles — no VIN or number-plate lookup of any kind

All of those recalls are still in the free search — you can look up a medicine, a food or a car here today. What we don’t do is add them to a list and watch them for you. Search all recalls →

Available now · Free

Look up anything, no account needed

Ten seconds, instead of three government websites.

Every recall we hold, searchable by brand, product, medicine or car. No sign-up, no email address, nothing to join.

• 22,139 recalls from CPSC, FDA and NHTSA, refreshed twice a day
• Plain-language summaries — what it is, what’s wrong, what to do
• Our own urgency rating, so you can tell a labelling error from a fire risk
• A link to the issuing agency’s own notice on every single page

Browse all recalls →

Open for pilot · For your household

Write down what you have. We’ll do the remembering.

The watching happens whether you remember to or not.

Searching only helps if you think to search. A recall is announced on a Tuesday afternoon on a government website you have no reason to visit, and nobody posts you a letter. This is the part that closes that gap.

1. You write down what you have. Type it the way you’d say it out loud — “Graco car seat” is enough. Paste a whole list at once, or add things one at a time as you think of them.
2. Add the model number if it’s handy. It’s the strongest match there is, because it identifies a specific batch rather than a maker. You can type it, or photograph the label with your phone — the picture is read on your device and never uploaded.
3. Each thing is checked straight away, then twice a day. Against the children’s product recall records we monitor, for as long as you have it — so a recall published in June finds the seat you bought in March.
4. If we find a recall matching something on your list, we tell you the same day. An email naming your item, what the notice says, and what the maker is offering — usually a free repair kit, a replacement part or a refund.
5. And you can hear when nothing has. A summary listing your things by name and what they were checked against — every week, every two weeks, every month, or never. Your choice. Quiet months are the normal case, and you should be able to see the watching happening.

Alerts will stay free — the agencies publish them for nothing, and charging for public information would be indefensible. What we’d charge for is the matching: watching your specific things, in one place, without you having to think about it.

How it works for families →

Open for pilot · For children’s resale shops

Proof you checked, dated and printable

Checked — and able to show it.

Federal law prohibits selling a recalled product, and CPSC’s guidance says resellers are expected to know whether the things they sell have been recalled. Checking by hand means searching thousands of notices every time stock comes through the door — and again next month, when a recall lands on something you took in last spring.

1. Bring the list you already keep. Your spreadsheet, your column names, no reformatting. You say which column is which, and nothing is written until you confirm it.
2. Everything is checked twice a day against the children’s product recalls we monitor, running while you’re closed.
3. Three lists, not a verdict. Do not sell · worth checking · nothing found — plus anything we couldn’t identify well enough to check at all, which is never quietly counted as clear.
4. Mark things sold or held back as they leave the floor, so the record reflects the shop rather than a snapshot from the day you imported.
5. Print a dated report whenever you need one. What was screened, against how many recalls, on what date. It is a record of screening — not a certificate that anything is safe to sell.

Who this is built for

How it works for shops →

Three things we won’t do

Decisions already made, written down so you can hold us to them — and so we can’t quietly change our minds later.

• No advertising, ever. A safety service that earns money when you buy things has a reason to make everything look alarming. That would corrupt every urgency rating on this site, including the honest ones.
• No commission on replacements. Most recalls come with a free repair or refund from the manufacturer. Steering you to a paid alternative instead would be working against you.
• No health information collected. We ask for the things you have and an email address. Not names, not ages, not diagnoses. Medicines and medical devices are refused at the point of entry, so we never collect or store that information in the first place.

Honestly, where this is

The free search is live and used today. Both monitoring services are built and running as a limited free pilot. Nobody is paying for anything yet, our terms of service are still being written, and we are having the whole thing reviewed by a lawyer before we charge anyone.

What gets built next depends on what pilot users tell us — which is the entire reason it is free and why we would rather have your complaints than your money.

Both are open — you can start now. Set up a shop account or start a list for your home. It takes about a minute, there is no card and no contract, and you can stop whenever you like. If you would rather ask something first, hello@therecallregistry.com reaches a person.

If you run a children’s resale shop, we’d rather have ten minutes of your time than your email address. How you handle recalls today is worth more to us than any guess we could make.