The US pulled 45 million units of food off shelves in nine months of 2024. How many within the same timespan in 2025?

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The US pulled 110 million units of food off shelves in nine months of 2025. That's more than double the 45 million from the year before. The number of recalls barely changed (363 to 415). Food production keeps consolidating. When one major supplier's ingredient goes bad, it impacts hundreds of products that all get recalled at once.

US food recalls more than doubled in a year, to 110 million units. One supplier's bad ingredient is now in hundreds of products.

Source: Sedgwick Recall Index / FDA, via Food Safety News · checked Dec 2025