INS-035 · Hazards & harm

Recalls that refer to children

50.9% of 2026 recalls refer to children in the headline or hazard text, against 44.5% in 2000.

Question it answers: How many recalls refer to children or babies?
What it means: Notices whose headline or hazard text refers to children, babies or similar.
What it does not mean: Not only children's products: includes adult products with a risk to children.
How sure: Medium. A keyword rule on text.

How it was worked out

Recalls looked at: Recalls dated 2026
Measure: Recalls referring to children / all recalls that year
Fields read: Title, Hazards[].Name
Rule: Headline or hazard text mentions child, children, infant, baby, toddler, kid, crib, nursery or youth.

year	matching	of	percent
2000	85	191	44.5
2001	94	245	38.4
2002	65	256	25.4
2003	72	215	33.5
2004	70	278	25.2
2005	100	323	31.0
2006	86	319	27.0
2007	169	452	37.4
2008	125	392	31.9
2009	137	383	35.8
2010	156	362	43.1
2011	93	313	29.7
2012	80	310	25.8
2013	88	290	30.3
2014	60	296	20.3
2015	70	305	23.0
2016	68	330	20.6
2017	73	280	26.1
2018	57	258	22.1
2019	67	241	27.8
2020	102	257	39.7
2021	68	219	31.1
2022	118	292	40.4
2023	116	324	35.8
2024	95	305	31.1
2025	203	420	48.3
2026	265	521	50.9

Counts recalls that refer to children in the headline or hazard text, including adult products with a risk to children (for example child-resistant packaging).
Does not count mentions only in the product description, which are often sizes or warnings.

265 recall notices are counted. The most recent: