Changelog
What changed, and why.
Certifications lapse. Formulations change. We get things wrong. When a record changes we say so here rather than editing it quietly — including the corrections, which are the entries worth reading.
September 2026
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Added Agabang (South Korea) — Seoul-based baby clothing and essentials.
Conservative listing pending a claim-check of its material and safety documentation.
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Published 'The Hype vs. the Recall Record' guide, citing the Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play recall verbatim from CPSC 19-105.
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Added safety-standard explainers for EN 71-9/10/11, ASTM F406 and FDA food-contact substances (21 CFR).
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Moved the database to PostgreSQL so the site can be hosted for nothing.
Managed Postgres is free at this scale where Azure SQL is not. Two things broke silently in the move and are worth recording: LIKE wildcard escaping is provider-specific and would have made searches quietly return nothing, and PostgreSQL rejects any timestamp that isn't UTC.
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Added Reima (Finland), Liewood (Denmark), Sophie la girafe (France) and Tegu (Honduras).
Liewood publishes its own recall and safety-warning reports, which is cited rather than paraphrased. Reima's origin and "since 1944" claim were pulled directly from the brand's own site.
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Added Done by Deer, Egmont Toys, SIGG, MAM, NUK, Tommee Tippee, Moyuum and Laranjinha — filling Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, South Korea and Portugal.
The Korean and Portuguese listings carry only what is safe to assert without having pulled their specific claims yet, and say so plainly.
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Added safety-standard explainers for the CCPSA & Toys Regulations (Canada), the ST Mark (Japan) and AS/NZS ISO 8124 (Australia & New Zealand).
These fill the regime gaps for the regions the catalogue now covers. Each explainer states what the mark does not mean, not just what it covers.
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Added three guides: the safety marks of the world, how to read a recall notice, and a feeding-safety checklist.
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Launched the Safety Watch: directory brands with regulator recall notices on record, most recalled first.
Each row shows the regulator's own finding — authority, date, hazard and a link to the notice. We add no commentary; only exact company-name matches are attributed.
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Started mirroring U.S. CPSC recall notices for children's products.
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Fixed company extraction on CPSC notices, which had been storing product names as companies.
Only about a fifth of CPSC notices name a manufacturer. The first version fell back to the product name, so records held companies called things like "Stacking Cups". It now reads the importer and distributor fields too, and stores nothing when the notice names no firm.
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Added EU Safety Gate and UK OPSS recall mirrors.
Safety Gate is the strongest of the feeds: alerts carry the Commission's own product categories, brand, country of origin and risk type as structured fields.
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Added Health Canada recalls, mirrored without brand attribution.
Health Canada names the recalling firm only inside prose. Parsing a company out of free text risks pinning a recall on the wrong business, so Canadian notices appear on the recalls page but never on a brand page.
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Removed a Wikipedia citation and a false "no recalls" claim from the Petit Bateau listing.
The listing cited Wikipedia, which our own methodology refuses as a source, and asserted that no recalls existed for the brand. The EU Safety Gate mirror then surfaced a Petit Bateau choking-hazard recall, disproving it. Both were caught by a new catalogue test rather than by a reader, which is the only reason this correction is dated today and not later.
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Added nine brands from Germany, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, the UK, New Zealand, Japan and the US.
The catalogue now spans five regulatory regions rather than mostly one. Every new entry is at the Claimed tier and quotes the brand's own declaration rather than paraphrasing it — including the scope limits, like Serendipity's "GOTS certified ... except tights".
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Documented why Australia, New Zealand and Japan are absent from the recall mirror.
The ACCC's feed returns 403 to automated requests — a deliberate block we won't route around. New Zealand and Japan publish no documented machine-readable feed. A scraper would work in all three cases; we're not writing one.
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Added ten brands from Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Denmark — the first Canadian listings.
The catalogue now spans six regulatory regions. Every new entry is at the Claimed tier and reports the brand's own declaration rather than paraphrasing it, stating plainly what has not yet been checked.
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Attached 14 sourced claims across 8 brands, each citing a regulation or scheme.
Every one is marked ai-assisted, because that is what it is: the citations establish which rules apply to a product category, not that a specific SKU was tested. Upgrading one means pulling the brand's actual registry entry.
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Added eight safety-standard explainers: CE, EN 71, CPSIA, ASTM F963, UKCA, GOTS, OEKO-TEX and FSC.
Each says what the mark requires AND what it does not cover — the gap between what a label implies and what it certifies is where most shoppers are misled.
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Published the methodology: our source hierarchy, and what we refuse to cite.
Marketing copy, affiliate and review sites, and AI summaries without attribution are not sources and are never cited here.
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The directory no longer leads with American manufacturing.
Origin used to decide which of two trust systems a brand belonged to — "verified American-made" or "trusted despite not being American". The second category was defined by a negative, which is a judgement dressed up as a structure. There is now one catalogue; origin is a filter like any other, and the regulatory regime a product is made under is recorded as a plain fact.
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Renamed the top verification tier from "Certified" to "Verified".
"Certified" implies a certifying body. We are not one, and no listing here carries accreditation from anybody. The label now says what we actually do: a person checked every published claim against a primary source.
Want these by email? Get the changelog — we send what changed and why, with the sources. When the Safety Watch gains a new recall record, that's in there too. Nothing else.