Topps expands meat recall

by Bob Sassone, Posted Oct 1st 2007 @ 3:31PM

Topps ground beef patties We told you last week that the Topps Meat Company had announced a recall of over 331,000 pounds of ground beef and patties that may contain E. coli. Did that seem like a lot to you? Topps has now expanded that recall to 21.7 million pounds. There's a possibility that total could increase later today.

I didn't think that there were that many pounds of meat in the U.S.

This is the fifth largest food recall in U.S. history. Several people have become sick from eating the beef. Topps even says that based on research, they think that most of the beef has already been consumed by customers.

Filed Under: Business, Health & Medical, Ingredients
Tags: beef, beef recall, food recall, frozen hamburger, frozen meat, hamburger patties, topps meat company, ToppsMeatCompany

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10-01-2007 @4:08PM Laura said... Another huge reason to start eating locally. Buying your meat from a local farmer greatly reduces the chances of dealing with contaminated meat.
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10-01-2007 @5:11PM Michael Schmitt said... #1 Please don't spread this fallacy around the 'net. Buying locally DOES NOT reduce one's chances of having a product contaminated with E. coli. It DOES reduce the AMOUNT of tainted product that is made due to batch sizes. I know that buying locally is a buzz-word, but realize that the people in New Jersey, where this company is located, BOUGHT LOCALLY, and some people in NJ became sick, possibly from this recalled meat.
What DOES reduce one's risk from E. coli in ground beef is to cook their hamburger to 160 degrees F internal temperature, preventing cross contaminationn of raw product to cooked product, and buying from an approved USDA source of beef.
The only way to NEVER get food poisoning is to never eat. All one can do is reduce the risk of food poisoning... it's just a fact of nature.

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10-02-2007 @12:12AM Dodo said... agree with #2.

its just sad all that meat has to go to waste...=(
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10-02-2007 @9:41AM Jon said... Michael, the people in New Jersey didn't buy meat from a local farmer, as suggested by Laura in the first post. They bought meat from a huge industrial slaughterhouse that happened to be located nearby. There's a big difference in the way the cows are raised and killed.
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10-03-2007 @10:09AM eva said... Michael, you sound just like Bruce Willis' character in Fast Food Nation. "Of course there's crap in the meat. You just have to cook it." Cooked crap is still crap, and I still don't want to put it in my mouth.

The USDA approves plenty of stuff that they never touch, never test, and should never give the go-ahead to be sold to blindly trusting consumers. And I'd rather not play kidney-failure bloody-diarrhea roulette. In the meantime, I'll take my 'buzzword' down to the food co-op, eat something grown, picked, and sold within 50 miles of my small city, and not go to bed so worried about whether I'm killing my family.
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10-10-2007 @12:43PM Dodo said... E. coli isn't much of a bug that can kill you (yes even the very virulent ones suck ass compared to cholera).

What kills the idiots, is that they think they can solve the problem by stopping the diarhea with Loperimide (OTC product), you're just stopping one of the best decontamination mechanisms nature provided you, Shooting it out of your bum as fast as possible.

And eva, local people use pesticides and antibiotics too. just cause they say they grow things "naturally" dont mean crap, cause guess what. humans lie. stop depending on the government to get everyone out there. if you really want to know where everything comes from do your research dont just assume that local is good. in fact, small companies can get away with stuff easier than big ones, because they aren't in the spotlight. you dig?
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