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Dear Paul:
Do you know if this is posted on the Commerce web
site (and what the URL of the page where the announcement is)?
I will get a special "frisson" of satisfaction
actually seeing it in black and white! :-)
Erza
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 11:31
AM
Subject: [USMA:31577] Re: that fabled
FPLA amendment
At 6 12 04, 09:41 AM, Paul Trusten wrote:
We don't
know yet what the inter-administration shakeups hold, but the Commerce
Department has announced that, in 2005, it is to propose to Congress that
the federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act be amended to allow U.S.
manufacturers the option of labeling their products in the metric
system only. It sounds like a small step, but a journey of a thousand
kilometers starts with such a step.
I think it is a
great step! It is unlikely to be fought in the courts like a "mandatory metric
only" law would be, and it means that more progressive manufacturers will drop
colloquial units. Metric only labels will really get people to think in
metric.
Jim Elwell
Jim Elwell, CAMS
Electrical
Engineer
Industrial manufacturing manager
Salt Lake City, Utah,
USA
www.qsicorp.com
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