Recall Database

Recalls by Company

Some manufacturers show up in the recall record often enough to warrant their own page. This section collects 48 of them — the automakers, medical-device makers, food companies, and pharmaceutical firms with the most recall activity in the current dataset: 2410 recall events across 3654 records. Ford leads; you can see everything tied to one company in one place. The leaderboard is ranked by recall EVENTS, not raw record counts, and the difference matters. The three agencies package recalls differently — NHTSA issues one record per safety campaign, the CPSC one per recall, the FDA one per affected product line — so an FDA recall can appear as dozens of records. Ranking by raw records would put FDA-heavy firms artificially on top: Medline, for instance, carries far more records than underlying recall events, which is why it sits mid-table here rather than near the top. Each hub shows both numbers. Read the event count for what it is: a measure of how much recall activity fell inside the current dataset, not a ranking of which company is least safe. Larger manufacturers with more products and more vehicles on the road generate more recall activity; a long list is often a sign of an active recall program, not the opposite. A brand earns a hub at 15 or more records for consumer and medical firms, or 10 or more for automakers; membership is set on records, the ranking is by events. Two things worth knowing before you read a brand page. First, records are grouped by a normalized company name and corporate families are not merged unless the agency data says so, so a parent and a subsidiary can appear separately. Second, nearly every brand here is regulated by a single agency; only a handful span two — Medline (CPSC and FDA) and Tesla (CPSC and NHTSA) among them. Pick a brand to see its full record, each row linked to the original agency notice.