On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Terry Simpson wrote: > ... > 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?...
Unfortunately, members of Congress and Federal employees still hear strong lobbies in opposition to SI only. For example, from the Food Marketing Institute (as reported here recently). > > ... I note that the proposed new text relating to retail food scales, > animal scales and grain hopper scales is non-metric only... True. Many voting members of the NCWM do not support preference for SI, even though a majority voted in support of an amendment to the FPLA to permit metric-only package labeling. The same can be said about the official policy of the TABD. Gene.
