The sad ending of Topps Meat A rebirth for irradiation? - (FoodHACCP News 5)
October 26, 2007 – 4:36 pmThe sad news about Topps Meat Co., Elizabeth, NJ, the largest hamburger processing company in the USA, closing its door because of the largest recall of ground beef in a decade due to E. coli contamination, hit the meat processing industry hard. The end of Topps after 67 years of successful operation, cost almost 100 jobs, millions of related costs of the recall. At least two lawsuits have been filed against the company.
It was exactly a decade ago that Hudson Foods, Inc. made the largest recall of E. coli contaminated ground beef in the history of the USA amounting to some 25 million pounds. The company subsequently went bankrupt. While the incidences of E. coli outbreaks from ground beef appear to have gone down in the past decade, the curse of E. coli O157:H7 never did go away from the meat (and food) industry. In fact, record from CDC in […]
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