Are those deodorants ALSO labeled with metric? Dual is the law here (US). If the floz are only supplementary, and the metric is correct, does it really matter is the floz is our floz or your floz? (Here, the floz must be correct because it is one half of the law, both are mandatory.)
The mandatory dual makes it harder to determine whether metric is growing. The only way to judge is whether the metric is a "rounder" or "more sensible" qunatity. By that criteria, it is growing, but not by leaps and bounds. ________________________________ From: Stephen Davis <stevo.da...@btinternet.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Wed, March 10, 2010 10:36:26 AM Subject: [USMA:46886] Re: The Good the Bad Sorry to refer to the UK again (its just that the UK is in my sphere of experience) but, in the last few years, certain US imports, particularly deoderants, are coming into UK ahops with floz readings on the boxes and cannisters.. I'm not sure if this is legal or not, but I would strongly suspect "not". "On the other hand Coke just came out with two new smaller sizes in our areas. I think its in anticipation of our wonderful governors proposal to tax sugary soft drinks by the oz. (gee I wonder how they are going to compute that on a 2 L bottle). The new sizes are 12 oz plastic bottles (cans are hard to reseal) and a new 8 oz can. O well." There just seems to be a ridiculous mix of units here. The Listerene kids mouth rinse are in metric units (albeit with customary units in brackets) but they appear to sell Coke in cans by the fluid ounce.. Just a thought....would anybody care all that much over there if a can of Coke was in hard metric units only? Nobody here does (probably because bottles and cans haven't been measured in floz for decades over here). People just ask for "a can of Coke", they don't really care about the amount that's in the can. There are a few exceptions to the all-metric rule in regard to packaged goods in the UK. 1136ml bottles of milk will have 2 pints written on them in smaller letters, as will 568ml bottles (1 pint). Very occasionally, you will see 568ml cans of lager with "Pint Can" written on it. These are very much the exception to the rule though, and they MUST have their metric equivalents written in a larger font. Are there any signs that metric, particularly with food and drink, is becoming more prominent in the US? -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Ressel" <hres...@dot.state.ny.us> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:36 PM Subject: [USMA:46885] The Good the Bad > Listerine fluoride kids mouth rinse 500 ml size with instructions in > metric first and English in parentheses 10 ml does (two tablespoons). > Also the storage temps. were in Celsius followed by Fahrenheit in > parentheses. > > On the other hand Coke just came out with two new smaller sizes in our > areas. I think its in anticipation of our wonderful governors proposal > to tax sugary soft drinks by the oz. (gee I wonder how they are going to > compute that on a 2 L bottle). The new sizes are 12 oz plastic bottles > (cans are hard to reseal) and a new 8 oz can. O well. > -- > "Go for a Metric America" > Howard Ressel > Project Design Engineer, Region 4 > (585) 272-3372 > >
