[USMA:15169] Enforcement of Legal Metrology

[Gene Mechtly]

Stephen Davis posed a question in USMA 15145:

> > ... there is little or no mandatory weights and
> >measures legislation in the US, metric or otherwise!!
> >
> >Is this correct??

Joseph B. Reid replied:

> More or less, yes.

Joe,

Please emphasize "less" correct in your equivocation above.

Try deliberate fraud in the marketplace and you will find yourself
prosecuted as soon as evidence is verified, after discovery.

e.g. Dilute prescription medications before sale and you will be punished.

Gene.