The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that specific batches of Häagen-Dazs™ Plain Vanilla Ice Cream have been recalled due to potential ethylene oxide contamination.
Six batches of Häagen-Dazs™ Plain Vanilla Ice Cream were voluntarily recalled by Linkage Foods Venture Corporation, which is the licensed Philippine distributor, the FDA said in an advisory.
The FDA said it was notified by Linkage Foods Venture Corporation of its "initiated voluntary recall of Häagen-Dazs™ Plain Vanilla Ice Cream, due to the potential ethylene oxide contamination."
"The voluntary recall was initiated after Linkage Foods Venture Corporation, the licensed Philippine distributor received a product recall notice from General Mills Singapore Pte Ltd, supplier of, Häagen-DazsTM products that is manufactured in France, after detection of trace amounts of ethylene oxide in two batches of Häagen-Dazs Plain Vanilla ice-cream during import tests in Taiwan," the FDA said.
The recalled products are Häagen-Dazs Vanilla 473ml with batch code and expiry date 4265873 (21 May 2023), 4282552 (01 July 2023), 4236295 (26 March 2023), 4251425 (29 April 2023).
Also included are Häagen-Dazs Vanilla 100ml with batch code and expiry date 4212791 (29 January 2023) and 4252236 (28 February 2023).
"This recall applies only to the batch codes stated above, and no other batch codes, or any other Häagen-DazsTM products are affected by this recall. The same batches of products were also recalled in other countries such as France, Taiwan, and Hongkong, among others," the FDA said.
"All Local Government Units (LGUs) and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are requested to ensure that the said products bearing the aforementioned lot numbers will no longer be made available in the market within their localities or areas of jurisdiction," it added.