How it uses Channel3

A recall names a product, not a listing. Channel3 is how a recall gets from a product name to what the market lists under it.

• Calls Channel3's search_products over its MCP server, from the hourly jobserver/sweep/channel3.ts
• Sends only the product name from CPSC's public recordserver/sweep/sweep.ts
• Keeps titles only: offers, sellers and prices stop at the doorserver/sweep/channel3.ts
• Shows a title only with the recalling firm's exact brand, read by the rules as its product, using CPSC's product name. It only counts the restserver/sweep/view.ts
• Caches every search, so opening a page never calls anyoneserver/sweep/sweep.ts

195 recalls searched so far, and 1480 products came back.

What this does not show

That any recalled unit is still for sale. A same-name product may be outside the recall, and how fresh the index is hasn't been checked. So a result is only ever a candidate for a person to review.

What goes out

Only the product name from CPSC's public record. Nothing from a shop or from PayPal is sent.

See one recall. A recorded run of the shopping agent. Back