Stephen Humphreys Feb 6th: "You cannot even have a dual label (imperial/metric)."
Stephen Humphreys Feb 9th: "Yes I agree, and the TSO I spoke to mentioned the fact that you can have dual labelling" Make yer mind up, Steve mate! Regards, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:22 AM Subject: [USMA:36001] Re: History of imperial since 1824 > >I had to wait until I got a response from a TSO I know before making the > >following claim. > > > > > > It is ***illegal*** to have glasses marked as "568ml" for beer/ale/cider > > in pubs. You cannot even have a dual label (imperial/metric). > > I too have made enquiries about this and the advice I have received is as > follows: > > The "pint" indication is mandatory. However the law doesn't explicitly ban > supplementarry metric indications. There is a principle in British law that > if something is not prohibited then it is allowed. In the event that > glasswear was submitted for approval for use in trade bearing both metric > and imperial it would only be rejected if the extra information made it > unclear such that it could be misread for example as meaning "1 pint + 568 > ml". > > I can't think of any reason why a glass manufacturer would bother about the > metric label unless there is a market for thier products in other countries > where they can be used but metric is required. > > In conclusion therefore we can rule out glasses that just say "568 ml" but > we can't rule out "PINT" ... "568 ml" > > Phil Hall >
