About Food Recall Check
A free, searchable view of every food recall in the FDA's enforcement reports, built to answer one question quickly: is something I bought recalled, and what should I look for on the package?
What this is
The FDA publishes food recalls in a weekly enforcement report. The records are public, but they are written for regulators: long product descriptions, lot codes run together, and a reason in one dense sentence. This site keeps those records searchable and adds what a shopper needs - the food it belongs to, the pathogen or allergen involved, where the product was sold, and whether the recall is still open.
It is a sister site of the US Drug Recall Register, built on the same data source and the same principles.
Who runs it
The site is an independent, privately run project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or funded by the FDA, the USDA or any food company.
There is no advertising and no sponsorship, and nothing about visitors is collected or sold.
Where the data comes from
Every record comes from the FDA food enforcement reports published through openFDA (public domain). We check for new records every day - last on Oct 6, 2026 - and rebuild the full set monthly so that status changes on older recalls are picked up. The register holds 29,471 recalls back to 2004. See data sources & coverage for what is and is not included.
How recalls are sorted
- By food. Each recall is matched to food categories by its product name - the part of FDA's description before sizes, codes and ingredient lists, so a cookie that lists eggs as an ingredient is not filed under eggs. A recall can belong to more than one food, and some belong to none of the categories.
- By cause. FDA's stated reason is classified by rules: a named pathogen first, then a hidden drug ingredient, then undeclared allergens, then foreign material, chemical contamination, mold, labeling and processing problems. Allergens are counted only when the reason says they were undeclared. The original wording is always shown.
- Where it was sold. US states are read from FDA's free-text distribution note. When the note is vague ("distributed to retailers"), no states are shown rather than guessed.
What it deliberately does not do
- It does not give medical advice. If you think a food made someone ill, contact a doctor.
- It does not track you: no analytics, no advertising, no cookies of our own. See the privacy policy.
- It does not replace the official notice. Follow the recall number to the FDA enforcement report search.