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What this is

Baby Dispatch actually read the label. It copies the record to the digit and has nothing to sell you, so once a week it can afford to be dry about a form.

An issue comes every Friday, the day after CPSC's Thursday recalls. Each one carries the first year's money dates with their forms, and recalls of gear a baby under one uses, including the hand-me-downs and gifts no store will ever email you about.

It sells nothing and gives no health advice. When the baby turns 1, its job is done, and the link at the bottom is the way out.

What it never does

• Give health advice. A recall item carries the notice's own hazard word and a link, and stops there.
• Clear a product. The most it ever says is nothing this week, as of a date.
• Promise money. It says what the agency says, with the link.
• Ask for a due date.
• Print a 0 for a source that failed. A failed read prints in words: not updated.

Where the data comes from

Built from public records of CPSC, NHTSA, FDA, the IRS and HealthCare.gov. We are not part of any of them.

• Recalls and warnings: CPSC's public recall records and warnings list.
• Car seats: NHTSA's recall records.
• Formula, baby food and infant medicine: FDA's recall list.
• Money dates: the IRS, HealthCare.gov and state pages.
• The Report Count: the public SaferProducts.gov database file.

Recall photos come from that recall's own CPSC record and carry its number. Warning photos come from that warning's own CPSC page and say so. Other photos are licensed and credited under each one.

How it decides what counts

A recall lands on a gear page when a baby under one uses that gear.

• The product name, or CPSC's own category, has to say so. CPSC's headline field is wrong on some records, so it goes unread.
• Every recall on a gear tile was read one by one. The ones ruled out are on file with the reason.
• A recall that covers two kinds of gear counts under both.
• Warnings sort on the product name alone, because CPSC's warning list has no category field. Those counts are softer than the recall counts.
• When a later CPSC warning changes what a recall says you get back, the card prints the warning.
• A record that mentions a baby but fits no tile goes to a person first. It never lands on a page by itself.

How it's made

Drafted with AI tools, approved by a person. No issue sends without that person's yes.

Who runs it

Baby Dispatch is the only byline. There is no made-up editor and no made-up parent behind it.

Spot a mistake? Write to hello@babydispatch.com. A wrong item gets fixed on the page and corrected in the next issue, and the corrections page keeps the list.