Either can be first, and metric-sized fills are perfectly acceptable. It just has to be marked in both units.
________________________________ From: John Altounji <phy...@msn.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:25 PM Subject: [USMA:53645] RE: metric business That was my understanding. Thank you for clarifying. So we can maybe push for metric first and customary in parenthesis, if it is legal. John Altounji One size does not fit all. Social promotion ruined Education. From:John M. Steele [mailto:jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:48 PM To: phy...@msn.com; U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:53642] metric business I think you need to get facts straight and start with the root of the problem. Costco can NOT unilaterally change to metric-only labels. Your statement that metric-only labels are legal in 48 states is NOT completely true. It is only true for items regulated by the state, not the Federal government. That is a relatively narrow list. Food items (and many other items) are controlled by Federal legislation, the FPLA, and the text of the law makes clear the state is preempted by the Federal law on these items. It would be unlawful for Costco to label food items in metric-only. Changing this HAS to start with Federal law. ________________________________ From:John Altounji <phy...@msn.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:48 PM Subject: [USMA:53642] metric business You may agree or not, but as government official do not want to get involved in the metric switch (I contacted a few. Not even a negative answer. They just ignore the message), I am thinking of contacting the private sector. I started with Costco. I sent the CEO the attached letter and to the publisher of Costco Connection a similar one by email. Maybe if we pick every time a business and we get a better written letter than mine then have as many people as possible contacting that business until we get some kind of a response. I started with Costco. Please shower him with something similar. In a month or two, let us pick another business and so on. John Altounji One size does not fit all. Social promotion ruined Education.
