On Monday 04 April 2005 12:14, Hillger, Don wrote:
> From one of our more active USMA members:
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> The FDA is starting to look at changes to nutrition labels: see
> http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2005/NEW01170.html
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> (Not really any direct relevance to metric labeling. The bottom of the
> release has pointers to the notices, which are scanned so rather huge,
> 1.1MB and 1.5MB).
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> The USMA President is urging members to use this as an opportunity for
> metric proponents to suggest kilojoules. But since the FDA's entire
> focus is on calories, kilojoules for energy or even dual labeling with
> calories/kilojoules would probably not be even slightly palatable to
> them. But it is an opportunity to give input and alert the FDA that
> some Americans think it is time to "think kilojoules."
The second notice is about serving sizes and says that they should be
expressed in "common household measures". We should point out that, although
kitchen scales are not as common here as in other parts of the world,
measuring cups are, and they commonly have a milliliter scale, thus the
milliliter is a common household measure, despite the sentence implying that
it isn't.
phma
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