Canada Product Recall Hub

A safer answer, faster

Canada Product Recall Hub gives people one practical place to answer a worrying question: has something in my home been recalled? Instead of making someone work out which agency published which notice, it brings food, vehicle, health, and consumer-product recalls into one clear experience.

The problem I wanted to solve

Official recall information is valuable, but it is spread across different systems and often written for people who already understand the process. That is a poor fit for a parent checking a car seat, someone managing a food allergy, or a driver trying to identify an affected vehicle. I designed the hub around the task the person actually came to complete, then kept the original notice one click away.

How the experience helps

• Search without knowing the system. One index covers several kinds of recalls, with useful filters for category, date, company, hazard, and risk.
• Start with the product in front of you. People can scan a UPC or EAN barcode with a camera, enter its code manually, or upload a photo instead of typing a product name.
• Watch the allergens that matter. Private, on-device preferences surface recent food notices involving milk, peanuts, gluten, eggs, and other selected allergens whenever the app is opened.
• Give parents a focused route. A dedicated child-safety view brings together notices for toys, cribs, strollers, car seats, infant formula, baby monitors, and similar products, alongside a practical response checklist.
• Make patterns understandable. A daily bulletin explains recent activity, while a trends view turns twelve months of recalls into readable charts and category breakdowns.
• Let people choose a comfortable view. Language, colour-blind, display-theme, and card-style controls make a dense safety archive easier to use.

The trust decision behind the interface

An empty search result can sound like an all-clear when it is really only an absence of matching data. The interface never makes that promise. It explains the limit, preserves the route to the official notice, and treats clarity as part of the safety feature rather than a line of fine print.

What the project demonstrates

This is the kind of design problem I enjoy most: taking a large, intimidating public dataset and organizing it around real-life decisions. The result is not simply a better-looking database. It is a service that helps someone move from concern to a sensible next step with less searching and less uncertainty.

Data and responsibility

The hub brings together notices from Canadian recall authorities, including Health Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Transport Canada, and links people back to the original records. Government information is used under the Open Government Licence – Canada. A product missing from the index is never presented as proof that it is safe.