BBQ Riblet Seasoning (Cargill Meat)(PPM) NET WT: 50 lb UPC (QST# 5275)
QST Ingredients and Packaging recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 August 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may contain small metal fragments due to contaminated onion powder ingredient used in manufacturing.
The record
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- Product
- BBQ Riblet Seasoning (Cargill Meat)(PPM) NET WT: 50 lb UPC (QST# 5275)
- Reason for recall
- Product may contain small metal fragments due to contaminated onion powder ingredient used in manufacturing.
- Recalling firm
- QST Ingredients and Packaging
- Firm location
- Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0496-2025
- Quantity
- 11,050 pounds total
- Distribution
- Product was distributed to 4 different customers who either use recalled finished product for ingredient in further processing or repack for retail sales. 4 customers are located in Southern California with the remaining customer in Texas.
- Initiated
- 7 August 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 20 August 2025
- Terminated
- 7 April 2026
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Lot Numbers: 059251, 079251, 154251, 170251, 170252
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This is one of 4 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 4 of them.
- The recall ran for 8 months, from 7 August 2025 to termination on 7 April 2026. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 13 days after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of meat or poultry run a median of 8 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Most meat and poultry is regulated by USDA FSIS rather than the FDA, so a product appearing in this FDA dataset is usually a closed-faced sandwich, a product with meat as a minor ingredient, or a food FSIS does not claim.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under meat and poultry and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other meat and poultry recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from QST Ingredients and Packaging
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-20 | Reduced Sodium Roast Beef Rub (Serv-Rite) NET WT: 50 lb UPC (QST# 6313) | QST Ingredients and Packaging | Product may contain small metal fragments due to contaminated onion powder ingredient used in manufacturing. | Class II |
| 2025-08-20 | Lemon Pepper Seasoning (Tarantino) NET WT: 50 lb UPC (QST# 6402) | QST Ingredients and Packaging | Product may contain small metal fragments due to contaminated onion powder ingredient used in manufacturing. | Class II |
| 2025-08-20 | Cajun Seasoning (Taratino) NET WT: 50 lb Usage: 13.80 LBS for 300 LBS of Meat UPC (QST# 4546) | QST Ingredients and Packaging | Product may contain small metal fragments due to contaminated onion powder ingredient used in manufacturing. | Class II |
All 4 records for QST Ingredients and Packaging
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21 CFR 117.40 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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