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The Topps Meat Company, based in Elizabeth, N.J., said it was recalling 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products, which may have sickened 25 people in eight states….

Twenty-one people in eight states may have fallen ill after eating hamburgers possibly contaminated with E. coli, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The Topps Meat Company, based in Elizabeth, N.J., announced a recall on Tuesday of boxes of frozen hamburgers. The recall affects 331,582 pounds of frozen beef patties and 21 products distributed nationwide. Illnesses were reported in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. A list of the recalled products is at www.toppsmeat.com….

Chinese authorities said 40 tons of pork they tested contained traces of a growth stimulant that is banned in China.

The National Bureau of Statistics said prices rose 6.5 percent, driven by a 49 percent jump in the cost of pork and other meat from the month a year earlier.

The new Croton Creek Steakhouse and Wine Bar in Croton Falls takes care of its central mission — offering tasty meat — well.

Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest hog and turkey producer, reported yesterday that quarterly net income doubled on rising beef and pork sales. Hormel Foods said its profit fell on higher costs to make Spam meat products and bacon bits.

Virus experts say Chinese authorities are playing down the impact of the highly infectious virus — believed to be an unusually deadly form of an infection known as blue-ear pig disease.

Buffalo is finally coming of age as an alternative red meat. But it almost didn’t happen.

Here are some sources for buffalo meat.

Buffalo can be substituted for beef in any recipe.