Scott Klug: “If we think this through rationally, essentially what will happen is, if we end up with this crazy local, State…”

“If we think this through rationally, essentially what will happen is, if we end up with this crazy local, State, national patchwork of requirements for labeling standards, eventually companies will say well, we will do that for California, because California has got so many people in it, it is worth the investment. But it might not be in North Dakota, or it might not be in Delaware. So essentially you will see a situation where companies and consumers will be deprived of the opportunity to buy things off the shelves simply because of labeling standards that add very little value to the amount of information that a consumer already has in front of him or in front of her. Again, we all agree on the committee that you want nutritional labeling standards in place, but one set of labels nationally. And if you are unhappy with an individual provision, get it changed once for California and Delaware and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and not for every single community.”