Baby Product Recalls by the Numbers, 2016 to 2025

From 2016 through 2025, CPSC announced 165 recalls of cribs, strollers, swings, high chairs and other nursery products, out of 2,926 recalls in total. 2025 had the most, 46. Strollers were recalled most often, falls were the most common hazard, and 72% offered a refund. NHTSA records show 41 car seat recall campaigns in the same years.

These are our own counts from the agencies’ public data. The method and its limits are at the end.

How many nursery products were recalled each year?

Two-thirds of the nursery recalls (110 of 165) came in the second half of the decade, 2021 to 2025. A reannouncement counts as a new recall in CPSC’s records, so the Rock ’n Play sleeper appears in 2019 and again in 2023.

Which products were recalled most?

Crib bumpers and inclined sleepers for infants have been banned hazardous products since November 12, 2022 under the Safe Sleep for Babies Act, so the bumper recalls after that date are of products that should not have been sold at all.

What hazards did the notices name?

We matched words in CPSC’s own hazard statement for each recall. One statement can name several hazards.

The rise in “violates a standard” is the clearest change. From 2016 to 2020, 11 of 55 nursery recalls said so; from 2021 to 2025, 76 of 110 did. Remedies shifted with it: refund-only recalls went from 22 of 55 to 85 of 110. Recall remedies breaks down refund, repair and replacement.

Car seat recalls in NHTSA’s data

In 26 of the 41 campaigns, NHTSA’s summary cites Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 213, the standard for child restraint systems. The remedy text most often named a replacement part or remedy kit (22) or a new label, manual or registration card (20). The median campaign covered about 23,000 seats. Car seat recalls shows how to check a seat.

How we counted, and the limits

• CPSC: every recall the CPSC Recall API returns for recall dates from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2025 (2,926 records). A recall counts as a nursery product recall when its title or product names match one of our product word lists; the first matching type wins. Toy, clothing and furniture recalls are left out, and accessories such as stroller fans and crib mobiles are excluded by hand-written rules.
• Hazards: matched in CPSC’s hazard statement. Remedies: CPSC’s own remedy field, as recorded.
• NHTSA: child seat campaigns are numbered with a C (for example 25C011000). We requested every number from 001 upward for each year until 12 in a row returned nothing, and counted a campaign that NHTSA says was replaced by a later one only once. No 2020 child seat campaign was returned this way.
• Known gaps: word matching misses products named unusually and can misfile a few. We found two CPSC records whose fields did not match their own title, a crib recall carrying another recall’s hazard text and a record titled with a wine; the second is excluded. Units sold are not summed because reannouncements would count them twice; the median recall covered about 2,700 units.

The data was retrieved on October 5, 2026, from the public APIs listed in the sources. For what a recall means for your own product, start with how baby product recalls work.