But the essence of packaging and labeling regulation increasingly appears to be protection of society from the marketing practices of manufacturers. We’re not sure this is the direction packaging regulation should be taking. What do you think?
In 1906, with evidence of chicanery in the meat packing industry, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act to prevent “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.”
