Consumer Product Safety Commission federal obligations

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Outlays—cash paid on those instruments—are unpublished here.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.

FY2026 cutoff and independent-commission scale

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $190,420,409.74 is cumulative through that horizon, not CPSC’s single-year appropriation. Staff scientists and investigators are generally paid outside the award file, so the 856 awards understate the Commission’s full operating cost if a reader expected every dollar to appear.

Independent product-safety regulators in other countries are not in USAspending. This total is U.S. federal awards tagged to CGAC 061 only.

CGAC 061

Consumer Product Safety Commission rows use awarding-agency code 061. SpendingVault’s /agencies/061/ path is keyed to it. The Federal Trade Commission (029) and other consumer-facing bodies are separate CGACs. A Customs and Border Protection award on import surveillance would not sit inside CPSC’s 856 rows even if the agencies coordinate in the field.

State attribution for a national regulator

The state table for agency 061 shows where USAspending placed the 856 awards. Testing labs, headquarters vendors, and field locations can all appear. A large state share is a location-field result, not a claim that products in that state are less safe.

Open the CPSC agency page for the live $190,420,409.74 total. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 061. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of product risk.

Labs, imports, and why recall dashboards are a different file

CPSC’s public recall dashboard and its National Electronic Injury Surveillance System are safety-data products. The 856 USAspending awards are procurement and assistance instruments. A week with a major infant-product recall can leave $190,420,409.74 unchanged. A laboratory equipment award can move it with no change in the recall feed. Keep those clocks separate.

Import surveillance at ports is often a CBP or CPSC staff function, not an award. Dollars that never become USAspending rows will not appear among the 856. The $190.4 million therefore understates the Commission’s full operating cost in the same way most independent-regulator award books do. Staff scientists are generally paid outside this table.

Testing laboratories and headquarters vendors drive many location tags on the agency 061 state table. That map is not a ranking of unsafe products by state. Open award-level records for NAICS and recipient names. FY2026 is the cutoff. Refresh the CPSC agency page after the next warehouse load if the question is whether the $190,420,409.74 has moved. Outlays are unpublished.

Import stoppages and port surveillance can be staff-heavy. Those activities may never appear among the 856 awards even when they consume a large share of the Commission’s year. The $190,420,409.74 is the contracted slice through FY2026, not a full operating encyclopedia. Readers comparing CPSC to other independent regulators should compare award books to award books, not award books to inspection counts. Refresh the agency 061 page after warehouse loads. Outlays remain unpublished.

Laboratory accreditation and equipment calibration can appear as awards among the 856 rows without being labeled as such. The packet has no object-class split, so this page will not guess which share of $190,420,409.74 is lab work. FY2026 remains the cutoff. Readers who need that split should open award-level USAspending records and then return to the agency 061 table for the roll-up. Outlays on equipment can lag the obligation date by a fiscal year or more.

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.