Consumer Product Safety Commission

Recalls live elsewhere; $190.4 million lives here

CPSC’s public identity is product safety: standards, recalls, and import surveillance. None of those case counts are in this packet. $190,420,409.74 is what the Commission obligated on awards through FY2026—laboratory support, IT, facilities, research contracts, and other instruments in the USAspending warehouse. A year with more recalls does not automatically raise this total. A new testing contract can raise it with no change in recall volume.

Eight hundred fifty-six awards is a mid-volume operations book. Dividing $190,420,409.74 by 856 yields about $222,454 per award. That mean can hide a mix of laboratory equipment purchases and multi-year support vehicles. The packet publishes no median.

Obligations are not injury statistics

Readers sometimes arrive looking for harm data. This table will not provide it. Hospital emergency-department estimates, death certificates, and incident reports are CPSC statistical products. The 856 USAspending rows are procurement and assistance instruments. Mixing the two would treat a lab contract as if it were a casualty count.

Outlays—cash paid on those instruments—are unpublished here. Laboratory construction or equipment awards can sit as obligations before the last invoice. Treat $190.4 million as commitments through the FY2026 cutoff, not as money already spent on testing.

Questions

How much has CPSC obligated on USAspending?

The Consumer Product Safety Commission shows $190,420,409.74 in obligations through FY2026 across 856 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 061 is the filter. The total is not a recall count and not an injury total. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 061 is the source for the current 856-award book.

What is the average CPSC award?

Dividing $190,420,409.74 by 856 awards yields about $222,454. The packet has no median. Laboratory or IT vehicles can raise the mean above many smaller purchase orders. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 061?

061 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/061/. Other consumer-protection agencies use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $190 million include recall costs paid by companies?

No. Company-funded recalls are not federal obligations. This page reports CPSC-awarded instruments in USAspending only—the $190,420,409.74 and 856 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.