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yes, russians use cyrillic for units, as same japanese or chinese.
I suppose those bars are imported!
I have some shampoos from israel which say mL in hebrew. fortuanately I
know some letters but it doesn't take much brain to realize that a liquid is 250
xx (<- replace for hebrew)!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:18
PM
Subject: [USMA:22089] Russian
chocolate
A couple of QSI employees just returned from a new cafe down
the street, which is apparently run by some Russians, as it has a bunch of
Russian food products and newspapers in it.
They brought me back a
chocolate bar. Of note:
(1) There are no colloquial units anywhere on
it.
(2) The ingredients are in German, English and Russian.
(3)
The German and English ingredients use standard metric symbols (e.g.,
"g").
(4) The Russian ingredients uses the Cryllic alphabet, not the SI
symbols: ghe for "g", ka for "k", etc.
(5) It is mighty tasty
chocolate!
(6) I was going to say that this is being sold in violation
of Utah packaging laws, but decided to check to see if Utah law requires
colloquial units. In just a brief check, it appears that is NOT the case (see
code section below). However, I don't know how federal FPLA laws apply
here.
Jim Elwell, CAMS
Electrical Engineer
Industrial
manufacturing manager
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
www.qsicorp.com
(bold by
Jim)
Enacted by Chapter 2, 1979 General Session of the Utah
Legislature
4-9-3. Weights and measures -- Systems recognized --
Basic units, tables, and equivalents as published by Bureau of
Standards.
The system of weights and measures in customary
use in the United States and the metric system of weights and measures are
jointly recognized, and either one or both of these systems shall be
used for all commercial purposes in this state. The definitions of basic units
of weight and measure, the tables of weight and measure, and the weights and
measures equivalents published by the National Bureau of Standards shall
govern weights and measures within this state.
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