MANCHESTER, Conn. — Check your freezers before you indulge in a frozen treat for dessert.
Manchester-based Royal Ice Cream Company is now recalling all of its ice cream products due to possible listeria contamination, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
All of the affected products were manufactured in Manchester, are within expiry and have the plant number CT121 or CT#121. The products were distributed to stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Louisiana, Florida, and Texas, and New Hampshire.
Now, the FDA says all products made at the Manchester facility are under that recall order, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems.
The list of brands impacted are as follows:
- 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, Van & Choc , Vanilla & Coffee HG – only
A week ago, the company issued the initial recall for a few varieties of the pints of ice cream.
The recall was initiated by Royal Ice Cream after FDA sampling revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes on processing equipment. The company is holding future product and testing before releasing distribution of the products as FDA and the company continue their investigation as to what caused the problem.
Customers with any of the affected products are urged not to eat it and are asked to return it to where they bought it for a full refund.
There have been no illnesses reported to date.
Those with questions can contact The Royal Ice Cream Company at (860)-649-5358, Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST.
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