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NOT SUPPORTED. Allows you to tap into a list of car, drug, food, and product safety recalls. Recalls are searchable by keyword, issuing agency, date, UPC code, vehicle-specific attributes, or any combination of these.
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Include EPA Recalls in API #7

Closed dsmorgan77 closed 11 years ago

dsmorgan77 commented 11 years ago

EPA recalls do not appear to be a part of the Recalls API specification, despite the fact that EPA is listed as a participating agency on recalls.gov. EPA has at least two recall types:

Vehicle Emissions recalls: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/recall.htm Pesticides: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/index.htm. It is not immediately clear whether EPA lists pesticides recalls on the Web site.

afeijoo commented 11 years ago

It doesn't appear that these emissions or pesticides recalls are in a machine-readable format. Do you know if EPA has these emissions or pesticide recalls in an API, RSS feed, or other machine-readable format? Or, do you have a point of contact who we could ask about publishing such a file?

FYI as it relates to this issue and to the other issues regarding the data included in this API -- the current data in the Recalls API come from the following four sources.

CDC - http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/createrss.asp?c=146 FDA - http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/StayInformed/RSSFeeds/DrugRecalls/rss.xml CPSC - http://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/CPSCUpcWS/CPSCUpcSvc.asmx NHTSA - http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/folders/recalls/mIBT4jvpyrRM6YJ3QIyC/flat_recalls_new.txt