# Records for Agents: Recalls & Product Safety Search

> Records for Agents: Recalls & Product Safety Search 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).

Search US federal product recall and safety data (CPSC, FDA, USDA FSIS, NHTSA) by product, company, date range, UPC, or recall number with full provenance metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://recalls.recordsforagents.com/search
- 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-recalls-product-safety-search-5fc5cd78
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zg1Q9XaBfxg6ltPBaPOA1

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-recalls-product-safety-search-5fc5cd78
```

Example prompt: Can you check if there are any active federal recalls or safety actions for Jif peanut butter — search across CPSC, FDA, and USDA records and show me the full provenance for anything you find?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search across multiple US federal recall databases simultaneously using free-text queries (product name, company, date range) rather than a specific identifier like a UPC or recall number. It is ideal for compliance verification workflows, agent-driven product safety checks, and any scenario where the user knows the product or brand but not the exact recall ID. Prefer sibling endpoints for UPC-based lookups or native recall number lookups.

## Known failure modes

- No matching records found for the given query (empty result set)
- Ambiguous product or firm name returns unrelated records requiring further filtering
- Date range too broad returns large result sets that may need pagination
- UPC not found in CPSC-backed coverage due to partial UPC data
- Stale as_of timestamp if upstream agency data has not been refreshed recently
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient

## 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 list of recall and safety records matching the query, each containing the product description, recalling firm, recall/action date, source agency (CPSC/FDA/USDA FSIS/NHTSA), source URL, record hash for provenance, and an as_of timestamp indicating data freshness.

## 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-recalls-product-safety-search-5fc5cd78/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)