-----Original Message----- From: Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 29, 2002 15:21 Subject: [USMA:19790] Re: Metric Standards and the USMA
>On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:25:39 > metric wrote: >... >> Since German >>national law was declared to be restrictive within the terms of the >>single market, it effectively ended the validity of national regulation >>for all member states. >> >Therefore, I urge you, our European friends, Han, Louis, Leonardo and others to stand on guard and start lobbying those organizations/individuals who are orchestrating this to remind them that you would NOT put up with this blatant assault on rational metric package size requirements. At the most you should show support for a very limited flexibility in package sizes. And I wouldn't go as far as a recent proposal shared here of allowing for 10 mL or 10 g increments. That would simply be too lax! Evidently for things like herbs, tea, gelatine, etc, fine, such low increment would be appropriate, but certainly not for things like wheat flour, sugar, coffee and the likes where icrements of 100 would be far more appropriate (for some room for intermediate 50's as in 750, 250, etc)! Arithmetic increments may be entirely unsuitable in many, many cases. Sequences of *preferred numbers* often provide a practical basis for setting a series of 'package sizes' (could be watts as in motors or generators). Duncan > >Marcus >
