Florida ice cream firm recalls treats from 23 states on listeria concerns

David J. Neal, Miami Herald on Jul 21, 2025

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The bad news: 110,292 cases of Ice cream bars and frozen treats sold in schools and via ice cream trucks have been recalled by Rich’s Ice Cream because they might have listeria.

The good news: With school out, unless the ice cream man makes regular rounds in your area, you probably haven’t run into these.

“Our products are available in schools and on street vending trucks (aka “the ice cream man”) all across the country,” the FAQ page on Rich’s Ice Cream website says. “At this time, we ship only to large wholesale ice cream distributors all over the US. These distributors then sell our ice cream to schools and businesses in their local market.”

Those distributors are in Florida, where Rich’s is based in West Palm Beach; California; Missouri; Texas; South Carolina; Pennsylvania; Georgia; Illinois; Alabama; Arizona; Iowa; Massachusetts; Louisiana; Nebraska; Nevada; New York; New Jersey; Ohio; Oregon; Oklahoma; Tennessee; Virginia; Wisconsin; and the Bahamas including Nassau.

Lot No. 24351 through 25156 of the following individually packed treats and ice cream bars are recalled. Throw away any of these bars if they’re in your freezer:

—Chocolate Crunch Cake Bar

—Strawberry Shortcake Bar

—Rich Bar

—Crumbled Cookie Bar

—Orange Cream Bar

—Fudge Frenzy Bar

—Cotton Candy Twirl Bar

—Savagely Sour BlueRaspberry Bar

—Savagely Sour Cherry Bar

—Cool Watermelon Bar

Rich’s informed the distributors about the June 27 recalls, but didn’t issue information for the public. They came to broader public light Friday when the recalls were included in the FDA Enforcement Report after the agency classified the recalls as Class II, meaning “temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.”

While listeria hits only 1,600 in the United States each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 260 of those people die. Babies and senior citizens are the most vulnerable to the worst of listeria. Pregnant women can suffer miscarriages and stillbirths. Most people suffer fever, headaches, muscle aches, stiffness, possibly even seizures.

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