About 2.3 million Ricky Joy Sour Crush rolling liquid candy bottles are being recalled because the plastic ball that rolls through the candy’s neck can break off and choke a child, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall notice, issued September 10.
The candy was sold individually for around $3 and in multi-packs priced $13 to $32 at H-E-B, Forman Mill, and other candy shops nationwide, as well as online through Walmart.com, CandyFunHouse.com, and RickyJoy.com, from January 2023 through May 2026, per the CPSC notice.
The recall notice states plainly: “The rolling ball on the recalled candy bottles can detach, posing a risk of serious injury or death from choking hazard.” No injuries or deaths have been reported in connection with this specific recall as of the CPSC’s announcement.
The product is manufactured in Colombia and imported by International Trade Imports LLC, doing business as The Ricky Joy Company, based in Cumming, Georgia.
This recall lands in a category regulators have flagged before. In 2024, the CPSC issued a broader warning about roller-ball candy products generally after a child’s death was linked to the design, and separately recalled 70 million Slime Licker Sour Rolling Liquid Candies over the same choking mechanism, according to the CPSC’s 2024 Candy Dynamics recall notice. The rolling-ball delivery mechanism itself (a small plastic or hard-candy sphere sized to roll past a child’s front teeth) is the recurring design flaw regulators keep coming back to.
What Consumers Should Do
- Stop giving the candy to children immediately and remove it from anywhere kids can reach it.
- Do not throw the product away or attempt to resell it; contact the manufacturer for the return process instead.
- Contact The Ricky Joy Company for a refund and a pre-paid shipping label to return the recalled bottles, per the CPSC notice.
- Reach the company toll-free at 404-975-0352, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, or online at rickyjoy.com/pages/recall.
- Check any candy aisle or party-favor stash at home against the product name “Ricky Joy Sour Crush” before assuming a rolling-ball candy on hand is unaffected — the recall covers roughly three and a half years of production and distribution.
Parents who shop regularly at H-E-B or Walmart, in particular, should treat this as a checkout-aisle candy to look for specifically, since both retailers carried the product both in stores and online over the multi-year sales window covered by the recall.