Moss Food Safety Questions

This week, Michael Moss, whose investigation of federal oversight of food safety and contaminated meat earned him a Pulitzer Prize, will be answering questions in the Diner’s Journal section of The New York Times’ website. Moss was honored with the Pulitzer on Tuesday, based on his coverage of a single case of an E.coli-contaminated hamburger. He traced the burger back to slaughterhouses that treated the beef with ammonia and later refused to sell to plants where the meat would be tested for harmful pathogens. Moss’s work led to greater exposure of the perils of beef consumption, and increased testing in the meat industry.