Cajun Seasoning (Taratino) NET WT: 50 lb Usage: 13.80 LBS for 300 LBS of Meat UPC (QST#…

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

Cajun Seasoning (Taratino) NET WT: 50 lb Usage: 13.80 LBS for 300 LBS of Meat UPC (QST# 4546)

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-0498-2025

Quantity

731 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# 118251

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. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
• 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

Filed under meat and poultry and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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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.

All 4 records for QST Ingredients and Packaging

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