It could be because the Canadians are either making a uniformly-sized product for the US market and think the US versions have to be hard wombat, or they could be US products in hard wombat sold in Canada.
Once the new labeling provisions go into effect much of this may go away. (at least I hope) Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chimpsarecute Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 13:29 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:29003] Re: Wisconsin Ice Cream And another thing. Businesses need to be aware of sloppy numeration. To have something in exact ounces, yet show a conversion to metric in two or more decimals is totally asinine Conversions should be rounded to practical numbers where it won't affect the actual contents description. And where it would, to the nearest whole number in either grams, or millilitres. Decimals to one place would be ok with litres and kilograms. For example: Either 1 lb 450 g or 1 lb 454 g, but never 1 lb 453.6 g, or 1 gallon 3.8 L but not 1 gallon 3.785 L. If consumers see funny numbers in metric it will turn them off to metrication. However if metrication results in rational metrication of sizes consumers might find metric acceptable. If Canada can be used as an example, one finds coolness to metrication because of the lack of rationalisation of products. Government enforcement of metrication should require a rationalisation of product sizes to rounded metric amounts for a period of either 5 or 10 years. Long enough to get people adjusted and happy with metric. After that the rules can be relaxed, and hopefully if sloppiness starts to enter, "market forces" or limited rationalisation would keep reversion from taking place. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2004-02-28 09:57 Subject: [USMA:28997] Wisconsin Ice Cream > Good. Sends a message that metric labeling is a serious contents > declaration, not just compliance with government regulations. > > http://www.wisinfo.com/heraldtimes/news/archive/local_14939989.shtml > > Nat > >
