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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Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!"
James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/
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