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Topps Meat to call it quits in wake of beef recall

Six days after issuing America's second ever largest beef recall, Topps Meat Co. announced today that the company is going to be going out of business. The amount of beef that was eventually involved in this recall totaled some 21.7 million pounds of the company's ground beef.

The company, which had been in business for the past 67 years expressed regret and stated that the event was "tragic for all concerned" and admitted that most of the recalled meat had already been consumed before it was recalled. The total amount of beef that was recalled was equivalent to roughly a year's worth of production.

So far, there have not been any reported deaths from the tainted meat, which has led to 30 reported cases of E coli. The good news is that properly cooking the ground beef was able to prevent the E coli breakout from being much more widespread. The disease is killed in meat that is cooked to an internal temperature of 160 degrees.

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