"While working with the FDA on food-safety issues, I came across a lab in Beltsville, Maryland, where scientists were looking at cantaloupe. They found that cleaning the exterior to a sufficient level is impossible. I then learned of the number of people who became ill from foodborne pathogens tied to cantaloupe—the same simple food that I saw served on my kids' plates at restaurants. A young woman I worked with last year to help pass food-safety legislation became ill from cantaloupe almost a decade earlier. Today, she suffers from reactive arthritis as a teenager. She is not alone.