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What the EU actually recalls

Original analysis · updated 26 October 2026

The EU’s Safety Gate published 47,472 alerts in the records we hold, and its annual volume has risen +124% between 2022 and 2025. Toys are the single largest category at 23.1% of categorised alerts.

Categories

Category	Alerts	Share
Toys	10,782	23.1%
Motor vehicles	6,452	13.8%
Cosmetics	6,255	13.4%
Clothing, textiles and fashion items	5,742	12.3%
Electrical appliances and equipment	4,967	10.6%
Childcare articles and children's equipment	1,632	3.5%
Chemical products	1,551	3.3%
Lighting equipment	1,285	2.8%
Jewellery	1,194	2.6%
Protective equipment	1,017	2.2%
Lighting chains	1,005	2.2%
Hobby/sports equipment	878	1.9%
Machinery	826	1.8%
Decorative articles	410	0.9%
Pyrotechnic articles	399	0.9%

Alerts per year

Year	Alerts
2016	1,873
2017	2,020
2018	2,063
2019	2,155
2020	2,218
2021	2,106
2022	2,105
2023	3,356
2024	4,069
2025	4,712

Method

A single register, reported in its own published taxonomy. We deliberately do not merge categories across registers: a combined chart would mostly measure which registers publish most (US FDA supplies 25,000 device notices, Transport Canada 18,000 vehicle notices), not what is recalled. Rows labelled only 'Other' are excluded from the shares.

Limitations

Shares are of categorised alerts (46,726 of 47,472); alerts labelled only “Other” are excluded.
A rise in alerts is not the same as a rise in unsafe products. It can also reflect more enforcement, better reporting, or a change in the rules. We make no claim about the cause.
These are the Safety Gate’s own category labels, unmodified.

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