>Madan Wrote:
>Luckily this will push the need for US to go metric,
>but the wombat lovers will try to push non-si down the
>throat of all the North and South Americans.

Yes, I see this as a great long-term threat. If the US manages to "shove" the ifp into 
the Pan American labelling then the "only 4%" of the world population will suddenly 
gain the support of the entire American continent. 

This will be a big BANG which should not happen. I just bought yesterday a bottle of 
"Febreeze" (P&G USA!). I really liked the label which was trilingual (E,F,S) and the 
bottle was 1L with ifp in brackets. 
I see this style only as an interim solution which will suggest the population that 
ifp is on the go. However this label style should not become a Pan American label just 
by adding Portughese. Ifp has to disappear when extending in South America.

My suggestion is to first ammend the FPLA to require mandatory metric labelling and 
allowing other units in brackets.

The following step would create a NAFTA space labelling with metric only and 
EVENTUALLY allowing explanatory packaging size outside the official size indication. 
Ex: one could allow the floozies in the (English) text of the product description but 
maintain the official size in SI and free of brackets or slashes.

A>

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