Alert about tainted hamburger expanded
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- September
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 The state today expanded its consumer alert regarding potentially tainted ground beef.
 Ag and Markets Commissioner Commissioner Patrick Hooker and Health Commissioner Richard Daines today warned consumers that the previous alert, issued on Tuesday, has been expanded for Topps 100% Ground Beef Hamburgers due to possible contamination with e-coli bacteria.
  The latest product added to the Topps recall includes Topps 100% Pure Ground Beef Hamburgers, 20 Quarter Pounders with the product code SELL BY JUN 21 08 EST 9748.
  Like the others involved in this recall, the ground beef patties were all manufactured by Topps Meat Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey.  They were distributed to grocery stores throughout the state.
  The contamination was discovered after consumers became ill after eating hamburgers. To date, there are 7 confirmed cases of e-coli in the state and 25 nationwide, in association with this recall.Â
 A full list of all products recalled is available at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/news-events/recall_040_2007_release/index.asp
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
