The Recall Desk
CriticalFDA (Food)·F-1047-2015·Announced 2015-02-18

Full Tilt Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream Recalled for Listeria Risk

Full Tilt Ice Cream is recalling Mexican Chocolate ice cream due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination from a recalled ingredient.

What this means for you

Highest-severity recall. Risk of serious injury or death is documented or strongly suspected. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.

Our severity reasoning: The source metadata explicitly identifies the agency classification as Class I, which corresponds to a Critical severity score of 5 according to the rubric.

Plain-English summary

Full Tilt Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling its Mexican Chocolate ice cream because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall is necessary because the product contains ice cream mix that was manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.

The affected products are packaged in 16 oz paper containers, 1.5 gallon plastic tubs, and 3 gallon plastic tubs. The 16 oz containers have the UPC code 736211046192. All affected products are coded with a 7-digit code ending in 14x (for example, 0219142) and were produced before December 19, 2014. The recall involves 784 cases, with 6 units per case.

The products were distributed nationwide. Consumers should check their freezers for these specific products and discard them or return them to the place of purchase. Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause serious illness, particularly in pregnant women, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems.

The recalled product

Product
Mexican Chocolate ice cream, labeled in part, "***Full Tilt ice cream Mexican Chocolate***Ingredients: Cream, milk, skim milk powder, sugar, bittersweet chocolate, corn syrup solids, dutch processed cocoa, vanilla, chocolate liquor, cinnamon, carob bean gum, guar gum, soy lecithi
Hazard

Distribution

Distributed nationwide across the United States.

Part of a larger recall action

This product is one of 17 recalled by Full Tilt Ice Cream under a single FDA (Food) recall action. The agency files each product separately, so the size of the action is not visible from this page alone.

See all 17 products in this recall →