Ken, I did find “comment Number 5” in the “Attached” PDF, just as you stated, and I heartily support the objective of comment Number 5!!! Acceptance of metric-only labeling by FTC selective enforcement of metric declarations of amounts inside packages.
I’m sorry to have wasted your time by opening the Attachment only after scanning the other URLs. Gene Mechtly. On Jul 16, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Butcher, Kenneth S. <kenneth.butc...@nist.gov<mailto:kenneth.butc...@nist.gov>> wrote: Mr. Mechtly Attached is a PDF of the comments the National Conference on Weights and Measures submitted to the FTC regarding their regulatory review of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) that you requested. Please see comment Number 5 which encourages FTC to consider allowing metric only labeling under its rulemaking authority. NIST worked closely with the NCWM to prepare and submit the comments. The FTC was already well aware that both the NIST and the NCWM have supported voluntary metric only labeling since 1999 when the Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation in NIST Handbook 130 was amended. This URL will take you to the NIST Handbook 130: http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/pubs/hb130-14.cfm This URL will take you to the proposed amendment to FPLA to permit metric only label: http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/pack-lab.cfm. Copies of both publications have been given to FTC. Ken Butcher National Institute of Standards and Technology Office of Weights and Measures <NCWM Comments to FTC on FPLA.pdf>
