(Trace)back to the Future

In the animated television show Futurama, there is a scene in which aliens, attempting a hostile takeover of Planet Express, exhort Professor Farnsworth to aid them by working, “Faster, faster!” Under duress of laser gunpoint, Farnsworth furiously keys in data on his computer, exclaiming, “I’m sciencing as fast as I can!” While there is still more than two years left for certain food industry players to come into compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administr…