BLOG: Topps - Lessons America forgot from Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle” - (Marler Blog)
November 24, 2007 – 11:20 pmIn October Topps Meat Company, founded in 1940, went out of business. That was after Topps had recalled nearly 22 million pounds of frozen hamburger contaminated with E. coli and 40 people across the U.S. had become ill.
Tort deformers decried the tragedy that is this Topps collapse - that a business went under and employees had lost their jobs. Yes, a company bankrupt and unemployment are tragic. What makes it more so is that the catastrophic breakdown in the food-safety chain at Topps could have and should have been prevented by Topps management.
Its been a century since Utpon Sinclair published the Jungle,” which exposed the contaminated underbelly of the American meat industry. Reform quickly followed. America got the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts. In the early 1990s, when these safeguards failed e.g. Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak again there was a public push […]
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