USMA Friends: Yes, I agree with John that as long as the *dual policy* remain progress is likely to get defrered on its own and consumer shall continue to suffer; and industry getting the edge over consumer in finding ways *HOW NOT TO CHANGE* to metric labling. The meeting shall provide another forum for how *NOT to agree* etc. Brij B.Vij
>From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:22679] Letter from the USMA >Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:09:46 -0400 > >2002-10-13 > >The other day I received a form letter from Lorelle Young of the USMA >announcing the public forum in November by NIST on metric only labelling. > >I think since many of us can not attend, and Jim McCracken is one of the >forum Co-ordinators who frequents this list, we can use this list and the >time left to discuss and present our views and reasons why we want to see >the FPLA amended to allow metric only labelling. Then Jim can present them >in our names to the forum. > >I would like to start of by saying that dual units add a lot of confusing >clutter to the package and packages containing only a single unit in metric >would be sufficient to describe its contents. > >Metric only will be more in the spirit of globalism by having one standard >for the whole world. > >Any more ideas? > >John _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
