So what is the manufacturing process? Compartmentalized knowledge doesn't scale. Is it totally automated? What is the procurement process? Even if every ingredient is a commodity, they have names and prices and second sources, etc.

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If an amateur chemist can quite faithfully reverse engineer Coca-Cola in a year, so can they reverse engineer WD-40.