Food recall

The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc. recall: All Ice Cream and Ice Cream products within expiry

The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc., of Manchester, CT, recalled All Ice Cream and Ice Cream products within expiry. The FDA's reason: “Product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on February 1, 2022, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of March 23, 2022. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class I

It could cause serious harm or death

Why

Listeria

Status

Terminated

Closed August 21, 2023

The recall

Company
The Royal Ice Cream Company Inc. (Manchester, CT)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
Where it was sold
MA, CT, RI, VT, NY, LA, FL, TX, NH, WI, PA, GA, NJ, MN, ME, MD, AZ, MI, NC, SC, OH
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
89514

The product recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-0863-2022 Class I

    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

    Codes: All product within expiry (all product that is not currently expired is affected by the recall).

    Quantity: 90 sleeves

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of March 23, 2022.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.