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Company in Beef Recall Folds

Economic strain of E. coli contamination was too much for firm to bear

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 5, 2007 4:36 PM CDT

(Newser) – Citing its inability to "overcome the economic reality of a recall this large," Topps Meat Co. announced today it will fold. The nation's largest producer of frozen hamburgers, a stalwart in Elizabeth, NJ, for 67 years, laid off 77 workers, the Newark Star-Ledger ...   Read full story »

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