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The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc. Recall: Product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

United States

TerminatedClass I

Company
The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc.
Product
All Ice Cream and Ice Cream products within expiry; manufact…
Recall date
February 1, 2022
Terminated
August 21, 2023
Source
FDA

Reason for recall

Product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

  1. - Recall initiated
  2. - Reported by source
  3. - Recall terminated
Recalled products
Product description UPC Quantity Lot / code information
All Ice Cream and Ice Cream products within expiry; manufactured by Royal Ice Cream Company; manufactured in Manchester, CT; all effected products will have the manufacturing plant number "CT121" or "CT #121"; RETAIL BRANDS EFFECTED: Batch brand pints, all flavors; Royal Ice Cream brand half gallons, pints, cakes, all specialties; Ronny Brook Ice Cream all flavor pints & 3 gallon tubs; New Orleans Ice Cream all flavor pints & 2.5-gallon tubs; Maple Valley Ice Cream all flavor pints; Art Cream all pint flavors; Sweet Scoops Yogurt all pint Flavors; Gelato Fiasco all pint Flavors; Biggy Iggy's Ice Cream Sandwiches; Munson Chip Wich Ice Cream sandwiches; Giffords Ice Cream Sandwiches all flavors; Chewy Louie Ice Cream Sandwiches; Snow Wich Ice Cream Sandwich; Newport Creamery - crazy vanilla, Vanilla & Chocolate, Vanilla & Coffee HG only; Dough Wich - Conn. 4 oz Cookie Dough Sandwich in all flavors of vanilla, chocolate, and french vanilla; Doris Italian Markets - Florida - Spumoni wedge, Spumoni Half Gallon, Tartufo, Cannoli, Spumoni pie slices; Highland Park Market brand ice cream, all sizes and all flavors; Labriola's Italian Stores, Spumoni Ice Cream, 64 ounces. FOOD SERVICE ONLY BRANDS EFFECTED: Cronin's brand; Orfitelli brand; Royal Ice Cream Company; Delicious Desserts Inc. brand; Sweet Service brand; Desserts Plus brand Not published in this source record 90 sleeves All product within expiry (all product that is not currently expired is affected by the recall).

Distribution

  • MA
  • CT
  • RI
  • VT
  • NY
  • LA
  • FL
  • TX
  • NH
  • WI
  • PA
  • GA
  • NJ
  • MN
  • ME
  • MD
  • AZ
  • MI
  • NC
  • SC
  • OH

Official source record

Agency
FDA
Dataset
FDA Food Enforcement (Recalls)
Recall number
F-0863-2022
Event ID
89514
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class I
Company
The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc.
Product description
All Ice Cream and Ice Cream products within expiry; manufactured by Royal Ice Cream Company; manufactured in Manchester, CT; all effected products will have the manufacturing plant number "CT121" or "CT #121"; RETAIL BRANDS EFFECTED: Batch brand pints, all flavors; Royal Ice Cream brand half gallons, pints, cakes, all specialties; Ronny Brook Ice Cream all flavor pints & 3 gallon tubs; New Orleans Ice Cream all flavor pints & 2.5-gallon tubs; Maple Valley Ice Cream all flavor pints; Art Cream all pint flavors; Sweet Scoops Yogurt all pint Flavors; Gelato Fiasco all pint Flavors; Biggy Iggy's Ice Cream Sandwiches; Munson Chip Wich Ice Cream sandwiches; Giffords Ice Cream Sandwiches all flavors; Chewy Louie Ice Cream Sandwiches; Snow Wich Ice Cream Sandwich; Newport Creamery - crazy vanilla, Vanilla & Chocolate, Vanilla & Coffee HG only; Dough Wich - Conn. 4 oz Cookie Dough Sandwich in all flavors of vanilla, chocolate, and french vanilla; Doris Italian Markets - Florida - Spumoni wedge, Spumoni Half Gallon, Tartufo, Cannoli, Spumoni pie slices; Highland Park Market brand ice cream, all sizes and all flavors; Labriola's Italian Stores, Spumoni Ice Cream, 64 ounces. FOOD SERVICE ONLY BRANDS EFFECTED: Cronin's brand; Orfitelli brand; Royal Ice Cream Company; Delicious Desserts Inc. brand; Sweet Service brand; Desserts Plus brand
Quantity
90 sleeves
Reason
Product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
Recall initiation date
February 1, 2022
Report date
March 23, 2022
Classification date
Not published in this source record
Termination date
August 21, 2023
Distribution pattern
MA, CT, RI, VT, NY, LA, FL, TX, NH, WI, PA, GA, NJ, MN, ME, MD, AZ, MI, NC, SC, OH
UPC, lot, and code information
All product within expiry (all product that is not currently expired is affected by the recall).
Voluntary or mandated
Voluntary: Firm initiated
Initial notification method
Telephone
Source last updated
Not tracked separately from the Public Health Trace retrieval date below
Public Health Trace retrieval date

Responsible company: The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc.

Distribution map

A map highlighting the states named in the source's distribution description.

Shading reflects state-level totals only, as published by the source. It does not imply county-level or point-level precision.

Distribution map
State Distributed
Massachusetts 1
Connecticut 1
Rhode Island 1
Vermont 1
New York 1
Louisiana 1
Florida 1
Texas 1
New Hampshire 1
Wisconsin 1
Pennsylvania 1
Georgia 1
New Jersey 1
Minnesota 1
Maine 1
Maryland 1
Arizona 1
Michigan 1
North Carolina 1
South Carolina 1
Ohio 1

States shown are extracted from the source's free-text distribution description above; a narrative description (e.g. "distributed nationwide") may not list individual states to extract.

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