PPS (TM) Shampoo and Conditioner I purchase when I
get my hair cut, is made in Australia and is also exported.
http://www.ppshairwear.com.au/
There is a contradiction I noted with their labelling. The Shampoo bottle has '375ml & 12.2 fl oz e', and the Conditioner bottle has '375ml & 12.6 fl oz (US) e'. I would presume that if this product is exported to the US, there may be legal implications, as the Shampoo is clearly wrong. At least they are getting more and not less. I would expect to see 12.7fl oz when rounding off to one decimal place. We are frequently told we live in a global economy. This sort of confusion is a good reason why the USA ought to adopt the global system.
http://www.ppshairwear.com.au/
There is a contradiction I noted with their labelling. The Shampoo bottle has '375ml & 12.2 fl oz e', and the Conditioner bottle has '375ml & 12.6 fl oz (US) e'. I would presume that if this product is exported to the US, there may be legal implications, as the Shampoo is clearly wrong. At least they are getting more and not less. I would expect to see 12.7fl oz when rounding off to one decimal place. We are frequently told we live in a global economy. This sort of confusion is a good reason why the USA ought to adopt the global system.
(Out of interest, how long has the USA
being decimalising their system? i.e, 3.7 miles, 12.2 fl oz, 2.38"
etc. When when the system was standard here, I was not aware of any
decimalising. I understood fractions would have been used when it was
not a whole number. I don't believe we would ever seen 2 &
3/8" presented as 2.38".)
375 Millilitres equals 12.6803 Ounces (US, fluid)
Reference: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html
375 Millilitres equals 12.6803 Ounces (US, fluid)
Reference: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html
Brenton Conway
PO Box 10021BC
ADELAIDE SA 5000
Australia
Tel +61 405 448 621
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of John Nichols
Sent: Monday, 20 January 2003 08:14
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:24524] Fwd: Re: Dollar stores
Interestingly enough I had a neutragena hair care product from the USA with
me in Oz. My step mother had the same product from Australia in almost the
same size bottle (200 ml) but hers had no FFUS and the only way I could
tell the difference as everything else was the same was the Australian one
was slightly lighter in the plastic and in your hand.
It must drive their marketing people insane
Anyone I prefered the oz one for obvious reasons
John
(Tahnks for all the help with the paper conversions)
>From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [USMA:24514] Re: Dollar stores
>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:05:56 +0100
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>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
>
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>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.
> >
> >
> >
John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional
Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC
Rm: A414 MD 3137
College Station, TX 77843-3137
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