The US companies Donna Karan and Estee Lauder with their once liquide also
use hard metric sizes, like this: 1.7 FL.OZ/OZ.LIQ/50 mL. Anything that has
an 'e' on the label is meant to be sold on the European mainland with the
fl.oz trash preferential in this case.
Han
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: [USMA:10290] US shampoo products in UK
> I sent a compliant yesterday to Neutrogena about the ad (by Boots The
Chemist) in yesterday's Independent for their shampoo. The label
> showed "10.1 fl oz (300 ml)". However, today I visited a branch of Boots,
and was pleasantly surprised to find that the bottle was labelled '300 ml' -
only. Not only that, but it said 'Made in the USA'. It shows what nonsense
the TABD's arguments are (especially as those are US fl oz). I shall
apologise to them, and commend them for using round metric sizes.
>
> However, the supreme irony is that I also found a range of 'Big Hair'
products from a company called Charles Worthington of London, which were
labelled 'Net 8.5 fl oz 250 ml'. They have a Web site at
> http://www.cwlondon.com (obviously not so proud of being British to choose
a .co.uk address).
>
> I also received a leaflet from the UK John Lewis chain, promoting a range
called origins. The photos show labels like '1.7 fl. oz/50 ml e' and '1.7
oz/50 g e'. I haven't yet determined if that really is how they appear in
the stores, but that 'e' suggests it is. However, a visit to their Web site
(http://www.origins.com) shows that they are
also using round metric sizes, even if they show the fps first.
> --
> Chris KEENAN
> UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
> UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
>
>
