The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc. Recall: Product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. - F-0863-2022

🇺🇸 United States

1. February 1, 2022 - Recall initiated
2. March 23, 2022 - Reported by source
3. August 21, 2023 - Recall terminated

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

July 18, 2026 ET

Responsible company: The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc.

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

Distributed No data published

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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Retrieved by Public Health Trace: July 18, 2026 ET

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Status as reported: Terminated.

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