Our son was here for Christmas and he complained that the ice in our refrigerator smells bad. My wife and I are seniors and maybe we don't have the olfactory senses we use to. The line from the water line to the fridge is new stainless steel that is only a year old. We have probably had the fridge 10 years or so.

We do not use a lot of ice and my wife thinks it is just absorbing smells from the foods in the fridge. We dumped it all, made new and the son thinks it still smells.

Do I need to call someone to investigate and who would I call? I assume someone who works on refrigerators.

Does the water from the tap have an odor according to your son?

Ice will pick up odors from foods, but often algae from the water tank/filling system components after the filter. Plastics are notorious for granting "footing" for algae and mold.

The "how to get it apart and back together" is specific to each fridge.

I turned my ice maker off and use filtered water and ice cube trays.

It makes ice faster that the icemaker anyway.

So, I can toss out the ice, fill all the trays after cleaning up the kitchen for the night.

Fresh ice, no annoying icemaker noises.

Many fridges with ice machines have an integral filter. It may be in the back of the upper section of the refrigerator section, or it may be at the bottom near one of the drawers, or it may be behind the vent screen below the doors. These filters are activated charcoal, and replaceable. If there is a scent to the ice that isn't coming from frozen stuff in the freezer, try replacing that filter.

Ice and water dispensers in refrigerators have water filter recommendations for forty + years.
They need an occasional changing.
Amazon is a nice place to get a few.
Be sure to completely flush system and dump old ice would be my way of thinking

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Originally posted by 45 Cal:
Amazon is a nice place to get a few.

Even better, Amazon Subscribe & Save. I'm signed up for a new one to arrive every 6 months and I get an even better price (10% discount if I have 5 other S&S items that month) than regular Amazon. S&S makes preventive maintenance easier.

Our public water is notorious for algae based stink at times during the year. It's super easy to add an inline filter to the ice-maker line. Ours was a GE filter off of Amazon. It has made all the difference for us. Plus one on the recommendation to dump the first few batches of ice after a new filter install.

Time to either replace or install an inline filter. Make it a carbon filter for taste & odor

Dump the ice, let the collection bin thaw out, wash thoroughly and reinstall.
You may need to do it more than once and on a schedule thereafter.

“Smice”

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
Our public water is notorious for algae based stink at times during the year.

I lived in Garland years ago. Lake Ray Hubbard summertime water always reminded me of drinking sun baked, hot, hose water.
I appreciate the water from Haskell Springs that the city sends to our tap. Quite nice water.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
“Smice”

"Scats"...

Google says

Link to Smelly Ice Solutions

OP,
well water or a city water system?