I had the opportunity to meet a number of the best and the brightest in the produce industry today, and learned much about what they are now doing to make produce safer.  I am hopeful for consumers and the growers, shippers and retailers.  Not surprisingly, cantaloupe came up more that a few times due to my ongoing litigation surrounding the 2011 Jensen Farms Listeria outbreak and the 2012 Chamberlain Farm Salmonella outbreak.  Not that cantaloupe did not already have a sorted history with pathogens.

I still shied away from them on the breakfast buffet.

Like most things with human behavior, I am always a bit stunned how long it takes us to get the hint that there is a problem.