Thirteen years ago, Rita Bernstein's family was turned upside down when a bag of lettuce caused lasting medical complications for her youngest daughter, Haylee. Haylee, then 3, became severely ill from E. coli in the bag of prewashed lettuce.

SEATTLE -- Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up.

Republican Judd Gregg, New Hampshire's senior U.S. senator, writes that under Theodore Roosevelt's term as president in the early years of the 20th century, Americans saw the first successful airplane flight made by Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk. The Victrola was sold as the latest in music technology.

On November 7, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published the "Prior Notice of Imported Food Final Rule" and a draft compliance policy guide (CPG) that outlines the agencies' enforcement policies regarding the final rule (73 Federal Register 66294 (final rule) and 73 Federal Register 66411 (CPG)).