Home & kitchen is 29% of US consumer recalls
Home, furniture & kitchen accounts for 29% of the United States consumer product recalls outside food and medicine: 2,209 of 7,658 CPSC recalls since 1995 that could be classified to an industry. A recall count measures how hard an inspectorate looks as well as what it finds.
It is where the US consumer-safety regulator actually spends its attention, as distinct from where FDA spends its.
80 of a possible 90Tier B, systematic first-party observation. Nothing at this tier is allowed past 90, however good it looks.
Verified September 9, 2026Rechecked every 180 days, next by March 8, 2027.
Held since January 1, 1995What repeatedly happened when brands acted. The earliest date we are willing to say this held. It may well have been true before that; we do not backdate a record past the evidence we have read. Supported, version 1.
This entry is wrong if
Recomputing this industry’s share of classifiable CPSC recalls returns a value outside 24% to 34%.
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Evidence
- Tier Bregulationn = 2209
US Consumer Product Safety Commission: CPSC recall service (saferproducts.gov)
2,209 CPSC recalls classified to this industry, counted in the register on 2026-09-09.
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History
- v1created
Derived from the recall-mix family on 2026-08-10.
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“Home & kitchen is 29% of US consumer recalls”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:us:home:recall-mix, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--home--recall-mix. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129
Orbt, "Home & kitchen is 29% of US consumer recalls," Orbt Market Index, entry omr:us:home:recall-mix, verified September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--home--recall-mix.
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How much of a market's product recalls are home, furniture & kitchen, by marketThis entry is one row of 17. The whole table, ranked, with every source.The same measure, elsewhere
We asked this of 17 markets. Here is where the answer differs most.
- CanadaCanada: Home & kitchen is 8% of recalls
- United KingdomUnited Kingdom: Home & kitchen is 7% of recalls
- AustraliaAustralia: Home & kitchen is 3% of recalls
- South KoreaSouth Korea: Home & kitchen is 6% of recalls
- FranceFrance: Home & kitchen is 3% of recalls
- JapanJapan: Home & kitchen is 9% of recalls
Also true of the United States
What else we hold on this market, heaviest first.
- United StatesUS home & kitchen: 92% recalled after harm
- United StatesUS home & kitchen recalls: 65% made in China
- United StatesUnited States: Home & kitchen is 5% of draft rules
- United StatesUnited States regulates home & kitchen for safety
- United StatesFacility registration renews every two years
- United StatesEvery product listed with FDA, ingredients included
Everything we hold on United StatesEvery record for this corridor