Royal Ice Cream Expands Listeria Recall

MASSACHUSETTS — The recall of ice cream sold across Massachusetts was expanded to include all products made in The Royal Ice Cream's Manchester, Connecticut facility. The items could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The recall was first issued last week. At that time, it was limited only to certain pints of ginger, mocha chip and vanilla Batch Ice Cream. The expanded recall includes a variety of brands sold in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and New Hampshire.

Affected products have the manufacturing plant number CT121 or CT#121 and are not past their expiration date. The following products were included in the recall:

• Batch brand: pints, all flavors
• Royal Ice Cream Brand: half gallons, pints, cakes, all specialties
• Ronny Brook Ice Cream: all flavors, pints and three-gallon tubs
• New Orleans Ice Cream: all flavors, pints and 2.5-gallon tubs
• Maple Valley Ice Cream: all flavors, pints
• Art Cream: all flavors, pints
• Sweet Scoops Yogurt: all flavors, pints
• Gelato Fiasco: all flavors, pints
• Biggy Iggy’s Ice Cream Sandwiches
• Munson Chip Wich ice cream sandwiches
• Giffords Ice Cream: all flavors of ice cream sandwiches
• Chewy Louie Ice Cream: ice cream sandwiches
• Snow Wich Ice Cream Sandwich
• Newport Creamery: Crazy Vanilla, Vanilla and Chocolate, Vanilla and Coffee, half gallons only

So far, no illnesses have been reported in connection with the recall. Listeria monocytogenes are organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.