Thanks for message,�Eugene Mechtly.�
Just in case
anyone is not familiar with those abbreviations:�
NCWM
=�National Conference on Weights and Measures�
NIST
=�National Institute of Standards and Technology�
> My
printed copies of the 2013 editions of Handbooks 44, 130, and 133
> arrived by USPS in today's mail.
>
> Handbook 130, Uniform Laws and Regulations in the areas of legal
> metrology..., is of greatest interest because it contains the
"Uniform
> Packaging and Labeling Regulation" (UPLR), a regulation similar
to the
> federal FPLA, adopted for regulation of consumer products in most of
the
> states (Alabama and New York being the last to adopt), that are
not
> regulated by federal laws.
>
> At first glance I see that inch-pound units continue to be
intermingled
> with SI units.
>
> For many years, I have tried to persuade the NCWM and NIST to
cleanly
> separate inch-pound units from the SI so that regulations governing
units
> outside the SI can be discarded sometime before the end of the
21st
> Century.
>
> Separation of i-p units from the SI remains an objective of mine. Do
you
> support this objective? If so, help persuade the NCWM and NIST to do
the
> separation in new editions of their printed documents.
>
> Eugene Mechtly
