# Records for Agents: Recall Lookup by Recall Number

> Records for Agents: Recall Lookup by Recall Number is a paid API for AI agents from recalls.recordsforagents.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches a single US federal product recall or safety campaign record by its native recall number, returning full structured data with provenance and freshness metadata.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://recalls.recordsforagents.com/:recall_number
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/records-for-agents-recall-lookup-by-recall-number-ab2d016a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_U20f4nhkBBnXlDKHSi-oq

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability records-for-agents-recall-lookup-by-recall-number-ab2d016a
```

Example prompt: Pull the full recall record for FDA recall number F-1234-2026 — I need the product details, hazard description, remedy, and the source URL with freshness timestamp for our compliance log.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you already know the exact native recall number (CPSC, FDA, NHTSA, or USDA FSIS format) and need to retrieve the full structured record with provenance and freshness metadata. Prefer this over search-based endpoints when you have a specific recall ID from a prior search, a government notice, or a compliance system — it is faster and more precise than keyword search.

## Known failure modes

- Recall number not found — returns 404 or empty result if the number does not exist in any covered agency dataset
- Invalid format for recall number — malformed or wrong-agency number format may return an error
- Record temporarily unavailable — upstream government source outage may cause fetch failure
- Stale data warning — as_of timestamp may indicate data older than expected if government source was recently unavailable

## How this service works

US federal product recall and safety data for AI agents: CPSC consumer product recalls, FDA food/drug/device enforcement actions, USDA FSIS meat/poultry/egg recalls and public health alerts, and NHTSA vehicle safety campaigns. Search by product, firm/company name, date range, or source; look up by UPC/barcode or by native recall/campaign number. Every record carries full provenance (source, source URL, fetched-at, record hash) and every response includes as_of freshness — built for agent-driven verification and compliance workflows.

## Output

A structured recall record for the specified recall number, including product description, recalling firm name, hazard description, remedy, recall initiation date, recall class/severity, source agency, source URL, fetched-at timestamp, record hash for integrity verification, and an as_of freshness indicator showing how recently the data was retrieved from the authoritative government source.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/records-for-agents-recall-lookup-by-recall-number-ab2d016a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from recalls.recordsforagents.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/recalls.recordsforagents.com/llms.txt)