TJX paid a $13 million civil penalty for selling and distributing recalled products, and the CPSC escalated enforcement in 2026 with expanded market surveillance and a criminal-referral posture for continued sales. Recall Guard screens every item in your catalog against the live CPSC recall database and gives you a dated screening log for the compliance file.
Columns we look for: product name, brand, model, SKU (headers are matched loosely, extra columns are ignored). Your file never leaves the browser. The screen itself queries the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's public recall API live.
The sample catalog is fictitious demo data (12 items). One item is planted on purpose to match a real CPSC recall (the Peloton Tread+ treadmill, recalled May 2021) so you can see a hit against live data.
Any CSV export with product names works: Shopify, Amazon inventory reports, liquidation manifests, a POS export, or a plain spreadsheet. Loose header matching finds name, brand, model, and SKU columns.
Every item is matched against the CPSC recall database: a rolling recall window plus all-years lookups for each brand in your file. Matching is scored, and anything uncertain is flagged for review rather than silently passed.
You get flagged items with the matched recall (title, date, hazard, remedy, link) and a dated CSV screening log. If a regulator, marketplace, or licensing inspector ever asks, you can show you screened, and when.
Federal law flatly prohibits selling recalled consumer products. What changed is how hard that rule is being enforced, and who counts as a seller.
TJX (TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods) agreed to pay $13 million for selling, offering for sale, and distributing recalled products. Off-price and resale flows are exactly where recalled goods resurface.
CPSC news releaseIn 2026 the CPSC expanded market oversight, crossed its 100,000th online takedown notice, and signaled criminal referrals for firms that keep selling after a recall. Small sellers are no longer under the radar.
Buchalter client alertThe CPSC determined Amazon is a distributor legally responsible for recalled third-party products it fulfilled. If the biggest marketplace in the world is on the hook, so is every storefront selling through it.
Holland & Knight analysisIt is unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or distribute in commerce any consumer product subject to a voluntary corrective action or mandatory recall. Intent does not matter; "we didn't know" is not a defense the statute offers.
Read the statuteBuilt for resale and liquidation sellers, off-price and thrift chains, marketplace sellers, and childcare operators whose licensing requires documented recall checks.
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