In September, the Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, issued the second largest beef recall in U.S. history—21.7 million pounds of ground beef. http://louiskjksheehan.blogspot.comThe recall came after an investigation, carried out by the New York State Department of Health and the CDC, linked bacteria from Topps’s frozen ground beef patties to an outbreak of the O157:H7 strain of E. coli that sickened 40 people in eight states.

Infection with E. coli O157:H7—a virulent strain of