An ice cream firm based mostly in Brooklyn has issued a recall of all flavors of its delicate serve ice cream and sorbet model after two individuals who ate its vanilla chocolate taste fell sick and have been despatched to the hospital, in response to the corporate and well being officers. The sicknesses have been presumably linked to listeria, a kind of micro organism that may trigger critical illness in individuals 65 or older and miscarriages and untimely births in pregnant ladies, well being officers mentioned.

The firm, Real Kosher Ice Cream, mentioned in a statement on Wednesday that it might instantly recall all six flavors of its Soft Serve on the Go Cups, packaged retail variations of sentimental serve ice cream and sorbet. Real Kosher notified all retailers that inventory the model, asking them to take away the merchandise from cabinets and freezers and eliminate them.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert on Thursday a couple of listeria outbreak that is likely to be linked to Soft Serve on the Go Cups.

In its own statement up to date Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration mentioned that an investigation into the outbreak was “ongoing.” The recall, the company mentioned, impacts 19 states and the District of Columbia the place the merchandise are distributed, together with New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Soft Serve on the Go Cups are additionally distributed in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Britain.

Ari Klein, one of many house owners of Real Kosher Ice Cream, mentioned the corporate was cooperating with well being officers to look into the reason for the sicknesses.

“We’re dealing with them on a daily basis,” Mr. Klein mentioned, including that the corporate had voluntarily recalled your entire line “even though it was only on one flavor.”

“We are a family-owned business, not a multibillion-dollar corporation,” Mr. Klein added. “And we felt this is the right thing to do.”

Real Kosher mentioned its different merchandise, which embrace frozen pizzas and frozen fruit, have been manufactured at a unique facility and weren’t affected by the recall.

In a post on its official Instagram page on Thursday, the C.D.C. warned the general public to not eat Soft Serve on the Go Cups, which it mentioned had been served in a minimum of one long-term care dwelling.

The recall got here after two clients, one in Pennsylvania and one other in New York, have been hospitalized between May and June after consuming Soft Serve on the Go vanilla chocolate ice cream, well being officers mentioned. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture examined samples of ice cream from the freezer of one of many sick individuals and located traces of a pressure of listeria.

Officials are nonetheless attempting to find out whether or not that pressure is identical pressure of listeria that brought about the present outbreak, the F.D.A. mentioned. So far, no deaths have been reported.

Listeria outbreaks within the United States are usually not a brand new phenomenon. In June, well being officers investigated a multistate outbreak tied to leafy greens. Previous listeria outbreaks have most probably been attributable to contaminated deli meat and cheeses and different retail ice cream brands, in response to the C.D.C.

Illness from listeria can happen inside a couple of hours, or generally two to 3 days, after the consumption of contaminated meals, well being officers mentioned. More extreme signs, equivalent to confusion, lack of steadiness and convulsions, can take three days to 3 months to develop.

Soft Serve on the Go merchandise are bought in clear plastic eight-ounce cups and are available in six flavors, together with vanilla chocolate, caramel and peanut butter ice cream, in addition to strawberry mango sorbet.

Mr. Klein mentioned future variations of the merchandise could be clearly marked with a label informing clients that they’re fit for human consumption, as soon as the corporate obtained steering from well being officers.

“They’ve been in our facilities many times, they’ve been in our offices, it’s all guided,” he mentioned, referring to the officers.

In addition to Soft Serve on the Go, Real Kosher has seven different manufacturers, together with Klein’s, its signature ice cream model, and Chevra, a line of frozen pizzas, in response to its website.