According to today's Wall St Journal, micro brewers need approval from some federal bureau or other before they can market new brews or new labels. The brewers have thousands of gallons of suds sitting in tanks, waiting for that bureau to come back to work and do their paperwork.
Sounds like a severe case of micromanagement to me. I don't see why brewers, or any other company, except maybe drug companies, need federal bureaucrats to approve labels, recipes, packaging, or anything else. If the customers don't like the new recipe or label or whatever, they will stop buying the product. That ought be enough to keep the brewers and other companies making good stuff.
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