{"chart":{"slug":"food-recalls-per-year","title":"How many food recalls are there each year?","takeaway":"The FDA classified 575 food recalls in 2025; the busiest year since 2013 was 2016, with 782. About 4 in 10 food recalls from 2013 to 2025 were Class I, the most serious kind. A recall counts once however many products it covers, in the year FDA first listed it in its weekly Enforcement Report. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included.","topic":"Food and drug safety","chart_type":"bar","ranking":false,"x_label":"Year FDA classified the recall","y_label":"Food recalls","unit":null,"points_count":13,"source":{"name":"U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data)","url":"https://open.fda.gov/apis/food/enforcement/"},"license":{"name":"Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA","url":"https://open.fda.gov/license/"},"data_as_of":"2025-12-31","updated_at":"2026-10-17T18:50:41.006Z","url":"https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year","api_url":"https://chart.ly/api/v1/charts/food-recalls-per-year","csv_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year/data.csv","image_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year/image.png","embed_url":"https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year/embed","credit":"U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year)","credit_html":"U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data), via \u003ca href=\"https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year\"\u003eChartly\u003c/a\u003e","average_label":null,"zero_axis":true,"data":[{"label":"2013","value":548},{"label":"2014","value":567},{"label":"2015","value":583},{"label":"2016","value":782},{"label":"2017","value":699},{"label":"2018","value":578},{"label":"2019","value":502},{"label":"2020","value":420},{"label":"2021","value":448},{"label":"2022","value":438},{"label":"2023","value":480},{"label":"2024","value":461},{"label":"2025","value":575}],"annotations":[]},"docs":"https://chart.ly/developers","terms":"Free to use with credit: wherever you show or quote a chart's data, name Chartly with a link to that chart's url (each chart's credit line does both) and credit its source as its license asks.","credit":"U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data), via Chartly (https://chart.ly/charts/food-recalls-per-year)"}