
Rohan A. Shirwaiker, co-director and Chief Scientific Officer (L) and William R. Aimutis, co-director and Chief Operating Officer (R) of the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at North Carolina State University.
"As it is now, we have to manufacture differently for every state."
A food packer said this in 1898, as was later quoted in 1981 by Wallace F. Janssen in his article, “The Story of the Laws Behind the Labels,” written for FDA Consumer magazine.
In his piece, Janssen describes how food labeling in the US started more than a century ago after a trade…