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Product Recalls and Consumer Product Safety: A Comprehensive Guide to Reporting, Corrective Action, Agencies, and Liability

15 U.S.C. § 2064

Type
Guide
Jurisdiction
National
Date
2024-05-21
Topic
Commercial

This guide covers product recalls across every major regulatory regime. Part One explains the reporting duty that starts before certainty and the information that triggers it. Part Two covers the consumer product framework, its remedies, and its penalties. Part Three covers motor vehicles and equipment. Part Four covers food, drugs, and devices. Part Five covers running a recall: scoping, stop-sale, notification, remedy design, and effectiveness. Part Six covers cost, insurance, and supplier recovery. Part Seven covers litigation, including the use of a recall as evidence and the preemption analysis by product category. Part Eight covers program design, and Part Nine covers emerging issues including software remedies and marketplace responsibility.

Product Recalls and Consumer Product Safety: A Comprehensive Guide to Reporting, Corrective Action, Agencies, and Liability

Commercial > Product Recalls and Consumer Product Safety | Published 21 May 2024 - Updated 26 May 2026 | UpLaw - uplaw.us

Part One — The reporting duty

📌 The obligation to report arises on information reasonably supporting the conclusion that a hazard may exist — not on a determination that it does. This is the organizing fact of the entire field, and misunderstanding it produces most of the enforcement.

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