[USMA:24524] Fwd: Re: Dollar stores

[John Nichols]

Interestingly enough I had a neutragena hair care product from the USA with me in Oz. My step mother had the same product from Australia in almost the same size bottle (200 ml) but hers had no FFUS and the only way I could tell the difference as everything else was the same was the Australian one was slightly lighter in the plastic and in your hand.

It must drive their marketing people insane

Anyone I prefered the oz one for obvious reasons

John

(Tahnks for all the help with the paper conversions)

From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [USMA:24514] Re: Dollar stores
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:05:56 +0100
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American units are never legal here, as in any other EU country, but the
TABD debacle must be blamed for American liquid units on products in EU
shops. The cosmetics products from all US cosmetics firms are fl oz
in primary position, metric supplemental and the %+@%*&+@ OZ LIQ is still
used by some American companies like EL and Donna Karan on their labels.
This trash will only vanish from our environment when and if the EU makes
metric only labelling mandatory from 2010 onwards. I think that on cosmetics
products from Estee Lauder sold in the UK you  will also see the US fl. oz,
the French abbreviation for that unit OZ LIQ, followed by mL. If this should
not be the case, if EL labels its products exported to the UK in metric
only, what are they up to?

I have never seen US (or UK) gallons, pecks, pints, quarts etc. on dual
labels here, only the US fluid ounce.
One unit labels are and remain metric.

English theme pubs in Amsterdam have an exemption; they may use the Imperial
pint, unlike Austrian theme pubs in Britain which are banned from using
metric steins.
Some British tourists will undoubtedly report this to the BWMA, as proof
that imperial units are wanted in mainland Europe. In fact, these pubs use
the pint to attract British tourists. Many British now go to Amsterdam to
stage stag parties and the hospitality industry will do anything to attract
them. They are unwanted in Dublin as there were hooligans among them. If the
same kind of hooligans turn up here, they will one day be unwanted in
Amsterdam as well and with them will go the pint.

Han

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From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, 2003-01-19 1:14
Subject: [USMA:24501] Re: Dollar stores


> >Of Han Maenen
> >We do have euro shops here. Generally they have SI only, but on American
products sold there you may well see dual units of course.
>
> American liquid units are illegal on product labels in the UK. Thus
American labels may be legal in the Netherlands but illegal in the UK. It is
ironic that UK and US people use (or did use) non-metric units but make each
others units illegal.
>
>
>

John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC
Rm: A414 MD 3137
College Station, TX 77843-3137

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