A search of the legislation on hmso.gov.uk gave me the impression that cosmetic products are treated differently to other products. However, the legislation is scattered across various amendments. The principle legislation is 1985 and the website does not hold legislation of that year.
The following trading standards webpage says that cosmetic markings must be 'metric only'. Either they are wrong or Estee Lauder is wrong. http://www.walsall.gov.uk/tradingstandards/pdf/Business/cosmetic%20products. pdf -- Terry Simpson Human Factors Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.connected-systems.com Phone: +44 7850 511794 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 January 2003 18:53 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:24516] Re: Dollar stores > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:14:24 -0000, "Terry Simpson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>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. > > It doesn't stop them being used on many perfume products. > > Chris > > -- > UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
