Vitaquest Iron Supplement Recall: CPSC 26-386 Child Poisoning Packaging Risk

Status, July 1 source check: source-cleared for a BadPD consumer-safety recall brief. The controlling record is CPSC recall 26-386, published April 9, 2026, for multiple iron-containing dietary supplements manufactured by Vitaquest International. CPSC says the products lack child-resistant packaging required for iron-containing products, creating a risk of serious injury or death from poisoning if young children swallow the contents.

This is recall-record accountability reporting, not medical, pediatric, poison-control, supplement, retail, refund, resale, legal, packaging-design, or purchase advice. The official CPSC recall, the product labels, the lot/UPC table, Vitaquest remedy confirmation, and any later CPSC amendment control whether a specific bottle or packet is included and what remedy proof is accepted.

What CPSC Says Was Recalled

The recall covers various brands of iron-containing dietary supplements. CPSC lists about 356,140 affected units. The recalled products include Arey, Bari Life, Bird&Be, Biote, Dr. Fuhrman, NuLife, HMR, Bariatric Pal, Noevir, Zenbean, and Sakara products. The official CPSC page includes a detailed lot, expiration-date, and UPC table. That table is the controlling product-identification record.

The hazard is not that iron is automatically unsafe when used as directed by adults or under medical guidance. The hazard is packaging. CPSC says the supplements contain iron, which must be in child-resistant packaging under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act. CPSC says these packages are not child-resistant and therefore pose serious injury or death risk if young children swallow the contents.

The remedy is listed as replacement. CPSC says consumers should immediately store the supplements out of sight and reach of children and contact Vitaquest International for information on how to obtain a free child-resistant replacement cap or storage pouch. The recall contact listed by CPSC is Vitaquest at 844-298-4545, productsafety@vitaquest.com, or the company recall information page.

CPSC says the products were sold through Credo Beauty, Erewhon, Healf, Nutrition World, The Vitamin Shoppe, Fullscript, Ulta Beauty stores nationwide, medical practitioners’ offices, brand websites, and Amazon.com from April 2023 through February 2026. The price range listed by CPSC is $13 to $130, depending on brand and size.

The Brand List Readers Should Check First

The official recall table is long. A household should start by checking whether any iron-containing supplement at home uses one of the listed brand or product families. CPSC names Arey Not Today, Grey; Bari Life Complete Bariatric Vitamin – Watermelon; multiple Bird&Be prenatal and fertility packs; Biote Nutraceutical Iron+; Dr. Fuhrman Gentle Prenatal Multivitamin + D3; Dr. Fuhrman Pixie Vites Children’s Multivitamin; NuLife Advanced Bariatrics Multivitamin Chewable Tablets; HMR Multi Daily Vitamin and Mineral Supplement; Bariatric Pal Ultra Multi Bariatric Multivitamin; Noevir Inner Care Premium BioEssentials; Zenbean Kids Cafe Instant Coffee + Nutrition Latte products; Sakara The Foundation; and Sakara The Foundation: Prenatal.

That brand list is only a first screen. Product inclusion depends on the official lot, expiration, and UPC identifiers. Some listed products have multiple lots. Some have several expiration dates. Some use bottles and receive replacement caps. Others use packets and receive storage pouches. A reader should not assume a product is included or excluded based on brand name alone.

The child-safety point is immediate storage. CPSC’s instruction is not to wait for the replacement cap or pouch while the product remains reachable. The safer record-based action is to put the product out of sight and reach of children first, then verify the lot, expiration date, UPC, and remedy route through CPSC and Vitaquest.

Why Packaging Is The Accountability Issue

Iron-containing supplements are common in prenatal, bariatric, fertility, children’s, and daily multivitamin product lanes. That is why packaging rules matter. The product may be sold for adult use, post-surgery nutrition, prenatal support, or children’s supplementation, but the packaging still has to account for young children in the home who may open it.

CPSC’s PPPA frame is simple: certain substances require child-resistant packaging because access by young children can produce severe poisoning risk. A supplement that sits in a medicine cabinet, purse, nightstand, kitchen drawer, gym bag, diaper bag, or office drawer can become a child-access hazard if the closure or pouch is not child-resistant.

This recall is also a retail accountability record. The seller list includes national stores, practitioner offices, brand websites, Amazon, and health-product channels. When a recall spans many brands and sales routes, the follow-up question is not only whether CPSC posted a notice. The follow-up question is whether every seller, brand, practitioner channel, and online marketplace can identify purchasers and move the remedy notice to the people who still have product.

BadPD is not saying every Vitaquest product is defective, every brand listed has the same remedy, or every customer is at equal risk. The confirmed claim is narrower: CPSC recalled specified iron-containing dietary supplement bottles and packets because their packaging is not child-resistant under the mandatory standard referenced by the agency.

Plain-Language File Check

If a household has one of the listed supplement brands, check the product name, count or packet size, lot, expiration date, and UPC against the official CPSC table. If the product matches, CPSC says to store it out of sight and reach of children immediately and contact Vitaquest for the replacement cap or storage pouch.

The CPSC page reports none reported under incidents and injuries. That matters, but it does not erase the recall. A child-resistant packaging recall can be urgent even before a poisoning is reported because the hazard is access. The recall goal is to prevent a child from reaching the contents before a case appears in an injury file.

The remedy differs by product. CPSC’s remedy table lists caps for products such as Arey, Biote, Dr. Fuhrman, NuLife, HMR, Bariatric Pal, and Noevir. It lists storage pouches for products such as Bari Life, Bird&Be, Zenbean, and Sakara. The official product table should be used for the exact lot and UPC match, and the remedy table should be used for the replacement path.

Records That Would Make The Recall Stronger

The strongest follow-up record would be direct purchaser notification proof from the named sellers and brand websites. This recall reaches multiple retail channels, including stores, practitioners, brand websites, and Amazon. A notice that never reaches the buyer is weaker than a notice that appears in the buyer’s email, store account, practitioner portal, brand account, or marketplace message center.

The second useful record would be remedy fulfillment data. How many replacement caps and storage pouches were requested? How many were shipped? How long did fulfillment take? Did the package include clear instructions that connected the remedy to the CPSC recall number? Those facts are not included in the current public source set.

The third useful record would be a shelf and listing cleanup file. Because the products were sold from April 2023 through February 2026, some units may remain in homes, offices, clinics, resale channels, donation streams, or storage bins long after the original purchase. A strong recall file would show seller inventory removal, point-of-sale blocking, marketplace listing cleanup, and practitioner-office notification.

Seller And Practitioner Notice Matters Here

This recall is different from a single-SKU store recall because the sales route runs through multiple kinds of trusted channels. CPSC names beauty retailers, nutrition retailers, online sellers, brand websites, practitioner offices, and Amazon. Some buyers may think of these products as wellness products, prenatal products, bariatric products, children’s vitamins, daily supplements, or practitioner-recommended products, not as poison-prevention packaging items. That makes direct notice more important.

A strong recall response should not depend on a parent finding the CPSC website by chance. Retailers and brands can often identify past buyers through loyalty accounts, online order histories, practitioner portals, subscription systems, brand email lists, point-of-sale records, and marketplace accounts. Practitioner offices may also have patient communication systems or supplement-dispensing records. Those systems are accountability tools when a product has a child-access packaging defect.

The practitioner channel deserves separate attention. If a product was sold or recommended through a medical, nutrition, fertility, prenatal, bariatric, or wellness office, patients may treat it as part of a care plan. The CPSC record does not say practitioners caused the packaging problem, and BadPD is not making that claim. The narrower point is that offices that sold or distributed a recalled product are part of the notice path. A patient who received a product through a practitioner should not have to monitor federal recall pages alone.

Retail shelves also create after-the-notice risk. A product sold from April 2023 through February 2026 can remain in backstock, return bins, warehouse totes, clinic cabinets, home pantries, or office drawers. The public record should eventually show whether sellers pulled remaining units, blocked checkout, updated product pages, and trained customer-service staff to route affected buyers to Vitaquest’s replacement cap or pouch process.

That is why this brief keeps the CPSC product table attached. The fastest public-safety path is not a general warning about supplements. It is a specific match: brand, product name, count or packet size, lot, expiration date, UPC, sales route, and remedy type. If any of those details change in an amended notice, the public-facing article should change with it.

Confirmed, Pending, Not Established

Confirmed by CPSC records

• CPSC recall 26-386 was published April 9, 2026.
• The recalled product class is various brands of iron-containing dietary supplements.
• CPSC lists about 356,140 units.
• CPSC says the packaging is not child-resistant as required for iron-containing products under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act.
• CPSC says the hazard is serious injury or death from poisoning if young children swallow the contents.
• CPSC lists no reported incidents or injuries as of the recall notice.
• The products were sold from April 2023 through February 2026 for $13 to $130.
• The seller list includes Credo Beauty, Erewhon, Healf, Nutrition World, The Vitamin Shoppe, Fullscript, Ulta Beauty stores, medical practitioners’ offices, brand websites, and Amazon.com.
• Vitaquest International LLC of West Caldwell, New Jersey, is listed as manufacturer.
• The products were manufactured in the United States.

Pending or missing records

• Seller and brand purchaser-notification proof.
• Replacement cap and storage pouch fulfillment totals.
• Retail inventory removal, point-of-sale block, and marketplace cleanup records.
• Practitioner-office notification records.
• Any later incident, injury, amended recall, enforcement, or lawsuit record.
• Confirmation that secondhand, donated, clinic, and household stock has been identified and secured.

Not established by this source set

• That every product from the listed brands is included.
• That every Vitaquest-manufactured supplement is included.
• That any poisoning, hospitalization, or death has been reported to CPSC for this recall.
• That all purchasers have received direct notice.
• That all replacement caps or storage pouches have been delivered.
• That all recalled product has been removed from homes, clinics, sellers, or resale channels.

BadPD Bottom Line

CPSC 26-386 belongs in the BadPD child-safety recall lane because it combines a severe potential hazard, a large affected unit count, a multi-brand product list, broad retail distribution, and a practical remedy that depends on consumer notice. The source set is strong enough to publish now because CPSC provides the recall number, product class, affected brands, unit count, sale window, seller channels, remedy, and incident status.

BadPD will update this brief if CPSC, Vitaquest, named brands, sellers, practitioner channels, Amazon, state consumer-protection offices, court records, or other accountable records add purchaser-notification proof, fulfillment data, inventory cleanup records, incident updates, enforcement action, or amended recall instructions tied to CPSC recall 26-386.

Source Ledger

• CPSC recall 26-386, Vitaquest iron-containing supplements, April 9, 2026
• CPSC Poison Prevention Packaging Act guidance

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