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CPSC Notices of Violation: what gets caught

Name: CPSC Notices of Violation: what gets caught
Creator: ComplyGoods
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CPSC's own spreadsheet of violative sampled products, tabulated by year, country, violation and requested action.

Last checked: 2026-09-22 · Source: CPSC Notices of Violation spreadsheet, updated 20 Aug 2026 CPSC · Licence: CC BY 4.0

Quick answer

CPSC's Notices of Violation spreadsheet (updated 20 August 2026) lists 39,928 violative sampled products from January 2009 to April 2026. 68.9% give China as the country. 2025 was the highest year in the file with 4,308 notices. In 2026 so far the most frequent violation is Third Party Certificate Violation (322 of 1,594). CPSC

39,928violative samples, 2009 to Apr 2026

68.9%list China as country

4,308in 2025, the highest year

1,594in 2026 to April

Notices of Violation by year

2026 covers January to April only.

4,308

1,594

201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Year	Notices
2012	1,945
2013	1,547
2014	2,335
2015	3,208
2016	2,210
2017	1,862
2018	2,766
2019	2,455
2020	1,467
2021	2,219
2022	3,611
2023	2,345
2024	2,357
2025	4,308
2026	1,594

Most frequent violations in 2026

Third Party Certificate Violation322

Certificate Testing Submission199

Misbranded Toys115

Tracking Label Violation110

Upholstered Furniture107

Toy Standard - ASTM F96375

General Conformity Certificate Violation59

Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 through 6X57

By country listed

China27,510 68.9%

Not stated3,062 7.7%

United States1,953 4.9%

Mexico1,243 3.1%

Hong Kong840 2.1%

India802 2.0%

Peru625 1.6%

Canada415 1.0%

Vietnam275 0.7%

Japan251 0.6%

Taiwan214 0.5%

Turkey191 0.5%

By violation, all years

Lead in Children's Product / FHSA6,743 16.9%

Tracking Label Violation6,243 15.6%

Third Party Certificate Violation4,617 11.6%

Small Parts1,628 4.1%

Art Materials Labeling1,411 3.5%

Failure to install covers that meet ASME/ANSI1,346 3.4%

Exceeds Phthalate Permanent Ban Limit1,263 3.2%

Certificate Testing Submission912 2.3%

Lead-in-Paint Toy/Children's Product/CPSA833 2.1%

Certificate Testing Not Reported698 1.7%

General Conformity Certificate Violation685 1.7%

Sleepwear Flammability Failure607 1.5%

Lead in Children's Product536 1.3%

Special Labeling under 3(b)470 1.2%

Pyrotechnic Materials Overload451 1.1%

Action CPSC requested

Normalised from CPSC's free-text action field.

Stop sale and correct future production21,312 53.4%

Correct future production9,142 22.9%

Seize5,213 13.1%

Recall4,115 10.3%

Other105 0.3%

Release41 0.1%

Method and limits

One row in CPSC's spreadsheet is one violative sampled product, not one company or one shipment.
Dates come in several formats; we read month and year. 94 rows carry no readable date and are counted in totals only.
Countries are CPSC's entries, normalised for spelling (e.g. 'Peoples Republic of China' to China). 'Not stated' means the cell is empty.
We publish aggregates only. CPSC's file names firms and addresses, some of them individuals; we do not republish them.

How to cite this dataset

ComplyGoods, CPSC Notices of Violation, analysed, version 2026-09-22. https://complygoods.com/data/violations/. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable twin for assistants: https://complygoods.com/data/violations.md

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Researched and maintained byRazvan Toma

Founder of ComplyGoods. Publishes open data on product-compliance regimes (also eprfrancerep.com and eprgermanyrep.com). Every figure here links to the government file or provider page it was read from.

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