James R. Frysinger wrote: >To make the FPLA amendment more palatable to businesses, >it is being "sold" as a further reduction in federal regulation.
It is interesting to compare and contrast the UK and US regulations. UK (Northern Ireland version): http://www.hmso.gov.uk/sr/sr1999/19990084.htm US: http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fplajump.html There are many differences in details of style and content. The US version goes into a lot more detail about the font including the height to width ratio. The UK version has 4 global criteria such as 'clearly legible'. They both mandate font height. The US version relates font height to label size but the UK version relates it to the quantity of product. The UK version is metric by default e.g. "minimum figure height 2 mm". The US version is by default non-metric e.g. "Not less than 1/16 inch (1.5 mm) in height".
