Recall check
Has anything on your shelf been recalled?
You checked it once, it was fine, and you have taken it every morning since. Nobody goes back and tells you when that changes. This checks your own list against the FDA’s recall record — the supplements and the prescriptions both.
This checks when you open the page, not while the app is closed. There is no account and no server here, so nothing can reach you in the background — and we are not going to imply otherwise. Open this page when you want to know, and it asks the FDA fresh.
What should we watch?
The same list your doctor report and timing page use. It stays on this device — only the name of each item is ever sent to the FDA, and nothing that identifies you.
Nothing to watch yet. Add what you take above, or bring the list across from a supplement label you have already checked.
Check a supplement labelHow this recall check is calculated
- What this check shows
- Enforcement reports published by the US Food and Drug Administration, matched by name against the list you keep on this device. Supplements come from the FDA's food enforcement record, prescriptions from its drug enforcement record.
- What it uses
- The openFDA enforcement API. No key, no account, and only the name of each item is sent — never anything that identifies you.
- How it is weighted
- Nothing is scored. Recalls still ongoing are shown above ones already terminated, and newest first. The Class I, II and III labels are the FDA's own severity scale, quoted rather than reworded.
- What it is NOT
- It is not a subscription that watches you in the background, because that would need a server this app does not have. It cannot see batch or lot numbers, so it cannot tell you whether your particular bottle is affected — only that a product of that name was recalled. A recall announced in the last few days may not be indexed yet.
Why these factors
- Recall data comes from the openFDA enforcement API, published by the US Food and Drug Administration.
- Class I, II and III are the FDA’s published definitions of recall severity, not our own ranking.
- Supplement searches are filtered to capsules, tablets, softgels, gummies and anything labelled a dietary supplement. Without that filter, searching "turmeric" returns 63 recalls of which most are foods that merely contain turmeric — a barbecue sauce, a chickpea salad. With it, 3 remain and all three are supplement products.
Educational information, not medical advice. If a product you take is recalled, stop using that batch and speak to a pharmacist — and never stop a prescribed medicine on the strength of a recall notice alone, because you may need a replacement supply first.