pat wrote on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:57:50 -0700 (PDT):

> blake murphy wrote:
>> i just looked at a half-dozen random items in my fridge and
>> they had both imperial and metric units on them.

> Yes. If you pick up a prepacked product at random in a US
> supermarket, it is likely to be covered by the FPLA. The FPLA
> requires both non- metric and metric.

> Beer is one of the products outside the scope of the FPLA. But
> there is no shortage of laws. Beer is covered by another law
> that requires non-metric units. The manufacturer has a choice
> to use metric units and some do.

>> (liquor and wine seem to be exclusively labeled in liters,
>> but god knows the rationale for that.)


By the way, US units differ from Imperial ones of the same name. The
Canadians once used Imperial but the only identical units between the US
and Imperial are those of length since the inches were equalized some
years ago.
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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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