Sports is 6% of US consumer recalls
Sports & outdoor accounts for 6% of the United States consumer product recalls outside food and medicine: 485 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.
77 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.
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Recomputing this industry’s share of classifiable CPSC recalls returns a value outside 1% to 11%.
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Evidence
- Tier Bregulationn = 485
US Consumer Product Safety Commission: CPSC recall service (saferproducts.gov)
485 CPSC recalls classified to this industry, counted in the register on 2026-09-09.
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Derived from the recall-mix family on 2026-08-10.
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“Sports is 6% of US consumer recalls”, The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, entry omr:us:sports:recall-mix, retrieved September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--sports--recall-mix. Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129
Orbt, "Sports is 6% of US consumer recalls," Orbt Market Index, entry omr:us:sports:recall-mix, verified September 9, 2026, https://tryorbt.com/markets/entry/us--sports--recall-mix.
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