The massive recall of ground beef has forced Topps Meat to shut down.

To quote my 2nd favorite movie of all time, John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing,

Garry: The generator’s gone.
MacReady: Any way we can we fix it?
Garry: It’s “gone”, MacReady.

They aren’t shutting their doors to reopen later after a cleanup, they have just shut down completely. They will be liquidating.

In some ways, the regulations that the Bush administration has been systematically dismantrling protect both the companies and the consumers out there. Had a more aggressive FDA or Agriculture Department caught this sooner, Topps would probably still be around.