About Label Ledger

What this site is

Label Ledger organises US government recall records by what is printed on the label: a UPC, a lot code, a best-by date, a model or serial number, a USDA establishment number. The site is a ledger of those identifiers against US government recall records, organised the way a person experiences a recall (one event, one brand, one product line) rather than the way agencies file them (one database row per item).

The site passes on information. It has no opinion of its own and gives no advice. Pages state what the agency record says and nothing more, and every page links to the official agency record, which is the authoritative source for current status. Label Ledger is not an alert service: it sends no notifications and has no accounts.

How the data works

Records come from public recall data published by federal agencies, starting with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service. A deterministic pipeline pulls each source on a regular cadence, normalises it, and groups related records into one page per recall event. Remedy and hazard statements are reproduced exactly as the agency issued them and are never paraphrased. Themethodology page explains how records are grouped, which records get their own page, and what checks run before anything is published. The sources page lists every feed and when it was last pulled.

How the writing is done

Some explanatory text on recall pages, such as the plain-language summary of a hazard and the answers to common questions, is drafted with the help of an AI model (Claude, made by Anthropic) working only from the agency records for that recall. Every draft passes automatic checks that every number, date and identifier matches the source records, and is read by a person before it is published. Remedy instructions, hazard statements and health information are the agency's own words, quoted exactly. The methodology page describes what the AI does and does not do.

Who publishes it

Label Ledger is published by InfoHub Digital LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, and maintained under the site's name rather than individual bylines; the methodology is documented so that readers can check every page against the agency record rather than rely on an author's credentials. It is not affiliated with the CPSC, USDA, FDA, NHTSA or any other agency, or with any company named on the site.

How the site is funded

The site is free to use. No company pays to appear, to change, or to be removed from a page; there are no sponsored placements. The site is supported by display advertising and by affiliate links to general product categories (never to a specific recalled product). Advertisers have no influence over which recalls are covered or what any page says. Advertising never appears inside the agency's remedy text. See theaffiliate disclosure and the privacy policy.

Corrections

Corrections are a first-class feature. To report an error, or to request a correction or removal, emailcorrections@labelledger.org with the page URL. Requests are acted on within48 hours, and material corrections to our own text are listed on thecorrections page. This address is the site's only inbound channel; it is not a customer-support line, and questions about a specific recall are best directed to the company or agency named on its page.

Nothing here is medical, legal or safety advice. The current status of any recall is on the agency record linked from each page.