{"disclaimer":"Recall data is republished from US federal open data (FDA openFDA, NHTSA, CPSC) and may lag the agencies' own publications. Severity is normalised across three regulators that grade differently — the basis for each rating is stated so it can be checked. Matching is by product text, so a product may be affected without matching the search terms, and a match does not prove the specific unit in hand is affected: always confirm against the lot numbers, UPCs and date codes in the recall notice. This is factual public-safety information, not legal, medical or compliance advice.","examples":["https://recallscout.scalpstream.com/recalls?product=infant+formula","https://recallscout.scalpstream.com/recalls?make=Honda\u0026model=Accord\u0026year=2020"],"honesty":"If an agency cannot be reached the response says so in sources_failed and sets complete=false. A lookup that could not consult all three is never reported as an all-clear.","parameters":{"include_ended":"1 to include terminated recalls as history (off by default)","limit":"max recalls returned per list (default 10)","make":"vehicle make (needs model and year too)","model":"vehicle model","product":"product, brand or ingredient — matched as a phrase across FDA and CPSC","year":"vehicle model year"},"payment":"x402 (HTTP 402): XRP or RLUSD on the XRP Ledger, or USDC on Base, Arbitrum, or Polygon. Custody-free.","price_usd":"0.01","service":"RecallScout","source":"US FDA (openFDA enforcement), US NHTSA (vehicle safety recalls), US CPSC (saferproducts.gov). Public domain / US Government works.","what":"Machine-payable US recall lookups across three regulators at once: FDA (food, drugs, medical devices), NHTSA (vehicles) and CPSC (consumer products). Answers whether something is under an ACTIVE recall and how urgent it is.","why":"The three agencies grade severity differently — FDA uses Class I/II/III, NHTSA grades nothing but flags 'do not drive' and 'park outside', and the CPSC writes prose. RecallScout normalises all three onto one CRITICAL/SERIOUS/MODERATE/LOW scale and states the basis for every rating so it can be audited. It also leads with ACTIVE recalls: 'peanut butter' matches 605 historical FDA food recalls and 8 ongoing ones, and only the 8 are actionable."}