Yes, apologies to Joseph for me misquoting what he actually said!!
Regards,
Steve.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [USMA:15187] Yet more questions about US weights and measures!!
> Stephen Davis wrote:
> >
> > Joseph B. Reid informs me that there is no mandatory weights and
measures
> > legislation in the US!!
>
> If Joe Reid told you this it must have been off the list or I am
> somehow unable to find such a statement by him on the list. Further,
> I've told you here and also off list what the laws and regulations for
> packaging fall under, namely the FPLA and UPLR. The former is certainly
> mandatory and the latter is mandatory where adopted or imitated by state
> laws or regulations.
>
> Is the issue something else? Perhaps what legally defines the sizes of
> the units? I suggest that you start at our Federal Standards and take a
> leisurely stroll through the U.S. Code (USC) and the Code of Federal
> Regulations (CFR). If you ever want "paper", our government can usually
> provide copious amounts!
>
> Please feel free to look at some of these citations:
> http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/neatplaces.htm
> http://physics.nist.gov/Document/SIFedReg.pdf
> http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/205b.shtml
> http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/fs376b.htm
> http://physics.nist.gov/Document/sp811.pdf
> http://physics.nist.gov/Document/sp330.pdf
> http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/fs376b.htm
> and there are some excellent sites to do some more scavenging for
> information:
> http://www.metric.org/
> http://www.metric1.org/
>
> The above relate only to the SI. If you're interested in documentation
> of non-SI units in the U.S., then go surf USC and CFR as I suggested
> above.
>
> Jim
>
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