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The Listeria contamination traced to a Colorado cantaloupe farm was the worst foodborne illness outbreak in nearly a century, and yet the Food and Drug Administration is still struggling to get a handle on how to prevent another outbreak while Congress keeps cutting the agency’s funding.

To this point, state Senate Bill 200 has probably been best known locally as the measure that divided Monument Rep. Amy Stephens, the bill's sponsor, from the most anti-"Obamacare" members of her Republican Party. But the exchange, signed into law in June, actually exists as more than a political issue.