Food allergen recalls
US food recalls because a label didn’t declare one of the nine major food allergens: company announcements as FDA posts them, then FDA’s enforcement reports. Each shows the reason in FDA’s words.
Announced recently
Company announcements FDA posted, usually within a day of the recall. Each links to the announcement for lot codes, where the product was sold and what to do.
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Company announcements posted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (fda.gov).The announcements are the companies’ own. Allergen tags by AllergyNest, from the reason in FDA’s summary. Not endorsed by FDA.
Most recent in FDA’s reports
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Data provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (https://open.fda.gov)Allergen tags by AllergyNest, from FDA’s reason. Not endorsed by FDA.
How to read a recall
FDA puts each recall in one of three classes by how serious the hazard is. Where a recall covers several products, we show the most serious class among them.
- Class I
- There is a reasonable probability that use of or exposure to the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
- Class II
- Use of or exposure to the product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, or the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.
- Class III
- Use of or exposure to the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences.
FDA’s definitions, from its recalls background and definitions.
Each recall’s page gives three dates: when the company began the recall, when FDA classified it and the date of the weekly enforcement report it first appeared in.
Where this comes from
- Companies announce many recalls themselves, and FDA posts those announcements on its recalls page, usually within a day. We check that list every hour and show the ones whose reason names one of the nine major food allergens. Each links to the announcement on FDA’s site, which has the lot codes, where the product was sold and what to do with it. Not every recall has an announcement.
- FDA’s Enforcement Reports list every recall FDA monitors once FDA has classified it, often weeks later. We read them through openFDA every day and keep the food recalls whose reason names one of the nine major food allergens as undeclared, from FDA’s January 2024 reports on. FDA asks that this data not be used to alert the public.
- FDA doesn’t update a recall’s status after classifying it, so we don’t show whether a recall is still open.
- The allergen tags are ours, matched from the reason FDA gives for each recall. Each recall’s page and each announcement shows that reason as FDA wrote it.
- The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service regulates meat, poultry and egg products and handles their recalls, so they aren’t here.
- openFDA asks that its data not be relied on for decisions about medical care. AllergyNest isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by FDA.
Get recall alerts by email
When FDA posts a company’s announcement of a recall naming an allergen you choose, we’ll email you that evening.
- We ask for your email address and the allergens you choose. Nothing else.
- One email on any day FDA posts a company’s recall announcement naming one of them, in the evening, US Eastern time. Several recalls that day come in one email.
- One email to confirm your address first. Nothing until you confirm.
- No ads, no tracking, and we never sell or share your address.
- Every email has a link to change your allergens or unsubscribe, which deletes both.