American units are never legal here, as in any other EU country, but the TABD debacle must be blamed for American liquid units on products in EU shops. The cosmetics products from all US cosmetics firms are fl oz in primary position, metric supplemental and the %+@%*&+@ OZ LIQ is still used by some American companies like EL and Donna Karan on their labels. This trash will only vanish from our environment when and if the EU makes metric only labelling mandatory from 2010 onwards. I think that on cosmetics products from Estee Lauder sold in the UK you will also see the US fl. oz, the French abbreviation for that unit OZ LIQ, followed by mL. If this should not be the case, if EL labels its products exported to the UK in metric only, what are they up to?
I have never seen US (or UK) gallons, pecks, pints, quarts etc. on dual labels here, only the US fluid ounce. One unit labels are and remain metric. English theme pubs in Amsterdam have an exemption; they may use the Imperial pint, unlike Austrian theme pubs in Britain which are banned from using metric steins. Some British tourists will undoubtedly report this to the BWMA, as proof that imperial units are wanted in mainland Europe. In fact, these pubs use the pint to attract British tourists. Many British now go to Amsterdam to stage stag parties and the hospitality industry will do anything to attract them. They are unwanted in Dublin as there were hooligans among them. If the same kind of hooligans turn up here, they will one day be unwanted in Amsterdam as well and with them will go the pint. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2003-01-19 1:14 Subject: [USMA:24501] Re: Dollar stores > >Of Han Maenen > >We do have euro shops here. Generally they have SI only, but on American products sold there you may well see dual units of course. > > American liquid units are illegal on product labels in the UK. Thus American labels may be legal in the Netherlands but illegal in the UK. It is ironic that UK and US people use (or did use) non-metric units but make each others units illegal. > > >
