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Topps Meat Company has announced that they are going out of business because of the beef recall it had to do last week. The recall was one of the largest in history, amounting to over 21 million pounds, and hurt the company so much that they can no longer stay in business. The company faces two lawsuits about the beef (so far) and the USDA has also been criticized for not acting sooner. Most of the beef was eaten by consumers who bought it, and 30 cases of E.Coli-based illness have occurred.
The closing of the Newark, NJ company means that 87 people will be out of work.
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10-05-2007 @7:26PM LeisureGuy said... At least no food inspector will lose a job...
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10-06-2007 @9:29AM Adam Fields said... That should be "The closing of the Newark, NJ company means that 87 people who were collectively not capable of selling untainted meat will be out of work."
It's sad that those people will now have to find other jobs that don't involve poisoning people, but are we supposed to be sad that absorbing the expenses of a health-related recall has caused a company to not be profitable anymore?
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10-07-2007 @3:23AM Evan M said... 87 People! What! Thats not a company, Thats a Small business!
Omg.
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10-08-2007 @10:36AM jsmylie said... They poisoned thirty people, they deserve to be out of work until they learn to do their jobs.
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10-08-2007 @5:56PM spence said... 2 and 4 you say that as if all 87 people were meat inspectors, ignoring and insulting the accountants, secretaries, salesmen, etc. who may have done their jobs well and had no hand in the meat handling process and now suffer the consequences
so yes it is sad, everyone loses
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10-08-2007 @7:06PM JJC said... Eating these processed beef patties is like playing Russian roulette. The germs have the upper hand now and none of the companies can avoid shipping tainted products.
It's time to consider irradiation of processed meats and some produce.
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10-14-2007 @5:11PM Terrance Voelkel said... Maybe it's time to hold HR and quality control personnel responsible also since it seems to be the practice of a lot of food companies to employ people from other countries here on Visas that do not have the same hygiene and food handling safety requirements in their country. We assume that if a company has a QA department, then they would find a problem BEFORE hundreds of people get sick and/or die from contaminated food!
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