Thousands of popular ice creams recalled over foreign material that could CHOKE customers

Daily Mail​

15-05-2025

Nearly 18,000 ice cream tubs sold nationwide are being recalled over fears they could pose a choking hazard.
Wells Enterprises — which makes popular brands like Blue Bunny and Halo Top — issued the recall after it was revealed some tubs contained shards of plastic.
The recall is for three-gallon ice cream tubs sold to restaurants, cafeterias and other businesses that offer ice cream on their menus.
They were not sold in grocery stores.
A wide variety of flavors were affected — including chocolate, vanilla, rocky road and cotton candy.
The FDA revealed the recall and marked it as a Class II, meaning consuming the ice creams could cause 'reversible health problems'.
No illnesses or injuries have been reported as a result of the ice cream to date.
The FDA and Wells Enterprises have notified businesses that sold the ice cream of the recalls via email.
The number of states affected by the recall was not revealed.
But the ice cream was sent to more than 100 distribution centers, suggesting it affects a large number of states.
Of the tubs recalled, vanilla frozen yogurt was the most common flavor — with 5,280.
Artificially flavored French Vanilla Ice Cream under the Glenview Farms label was second, with 2,261 tubs recalled, followed by Vanilla Flavored ice cream, with 1,573 tubs.
A full view of the flavors recalled was revealed on the FDA's website.
It is likely that restaurants have been advised to throw out the ice cream immediately and contact the seller for a full refund.
It is not clear how plastic shards got into the ice cream, but it is usually due to a fault during the manufacturing process.
It comes after another ice cream recall in January after an undisclosed ingredient was found in the product.
The California-based mochi ice cream company issued the recall over the discovery, with its ice creams sold in stores like Target and Wegmans.
My Moci recalled 1,350 cases of its Peach Mango Sorbet because they contained undeclared pasteurized egg whites, putting people with allergies at risk.
There were at least two reports of 'minor' allergic reactions linked to the sorbets before the recall was issued, the FDA said.