This case, involving legal requirements for the content and labeling of meat products such as frankfurters, affords a rare opportunity to explore simultaneously both parts of Bismarck's aphorism that 'No man should see how laws or sausages are made.'

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Block v. Community Nutrition Institute, 749 F.2d 50, 51 (D.C. Cir. 1984) ; decided December 5, 1984.

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