Industry proves again that it can self-regulate

Who needs government interference?

In the months before issuing a massive recall of its frozen hamburgers, Topps Meat Co. curtailed testing of ground beef and skipped other safeguards aimed at preventing contaminated meat from reaching consumers, according to a published report Tuesday.

Three batches of frozen patties tainted with a potentially fatal bacteria left the company's plant in Elizabeth, according to unnamed federal regulators cited by The New York Times.

What should already be public knowledge is who the faulty suppliers were for this shoddy operation. For some reason, those businesses are being shielded from the public but consumers have a right to know which businesses are more concerned with profit than with feces spilling all over their product. Interesting set up priorities for a business in the food industry though it helps to explain why the idiots running the business ruined the company so quickly.