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Coca Cola's 591 mL vending machine bottle trumpets "20 OZ"
near the top of the label. There you have one of the nation's largest soft drink
purveyors stepping in WOMBAT doo-doo.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005
09:02
Subject: [USMA:35138] Re: Faulty rounding
in unit conversions
On 2005 Nov 2 , at 2:06 PM, Philip S Hall wrote:
The label
says "NET
WT"
Philip is
RIGHT! The label (on the can of KaMe coconut milk) says:
NET WT 14 Fl
Oz (400 mL)
How absurd that is!
The weight cannot be measured in
"fluid ounces (Fl Oz)" because fluid ounces measures volume not weight.
Could it be that they mean "NET WT 14 Oz" where Oz without the
qualifier "fluid" would show that it is the weight ounce not the volume ounce
they are referring to. Is a weight of 14 ounces reasonable for the contents of
the can? I don't know the density of coconut milk and I am not sure what the
volume of the product in the can is. (It's probably 400 mL but they've screwed
up their label measurements so badly that I don't know if I would trust the
400 mL to be correct.)
But if they DO mean ounces of weight (Oz, not Fl
Oz), then it is still all wrong because of the 400 mL reference. Millilitres
(mL) certainly are not units of weight, they are units of volume.
What
a mess they made of their labeling. I wonder if ANY of it is even
LEGAL.
(Everywhere that "weight" is used above the proper term would be
"mass". I have not attempted to correct that common (even sanctioned) error
since it is not relevant to my main point
here.)
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida,
USA
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