Gene Mechtly wrote: > The agenda of the NCWM Interem Meeting (2003 Jan 12-15 in Florida) is now > posted at <www.ncwm.net/Pub15.pdf>.
Thanks. I took a look through the pdf file. I don't think I quite understand it but perhaps you might indulge my comments: 1. I notice examples of legal text such as: 'fresh poultry is defined as poultry above 3�C (26 �F)' 'A minimum test load of 5000 kg (10 000 lb)'. these finer points of product definitions and test procedures could be simplified to: 'fresh poultry is defined as poultry above 3�C' 'A minimum test load of 5000 kg'. This would not only simplify and declutter the text, but it would remove ambiguities of interpretation that need additional clarification. Every time that there are dual units, there is the question of ensuring that everybody knows which one takes precedence, whether natural rounding is acceptable, and other problems. I see this sort of issue all over US regulations. For example, the FPLA has examples like: "4 square feet (37.1 dm2)" Is it not about time that regulations stopped being so shy with metric units? It is not as if they are for the benefit of the public, these are matters for engineers, lawyers, courts. 2. I note that the proposed new text relating to retail food scales, animal scales and grain hopper scales is non-metric only. There are other examples of non-metric only units that can be discovered by searching the document with the keyword 'pounds',
