I think industry would fight against standard sizes. They want the ability to down size and keep the cost the same.
There could be a compromise by requiring products to be only labeled to 0.1 litres, for example. Thus in this example, the size would have to be filled to 3.8 L and 3.7 L respectively. I do believe though, if we got rid of the non-metric on the labels, and all that was left were silly metric numbers, industry might see it as awkward and voluntarily move to rounded sizes or at least semi-rounded sizes. I've been in food factories and seen the filling machines and the fill amounts were always metric. These paint cans may already be filled to a rounded metric amount, only labeled incorrectly. Dan ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:52:28 PM Subject: [USMA:38123] Re: Label Typo Yet another reason for finally getting approval for voluntary metric-only labelling (via the FPLA). Rational metric sizes almost never get corrupted in this way and a shift to metric-only labels would almost certainly eventually result in rational metric sizes. Ezra -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Today, in Toronto, I purchased a can of US made Benjamin Moore paint. > > It is a standard sized , 1 U.S. gallon can of paint, although the > label > is designed for the Canadian market, as the wording is bilingual > English and French, and the volume is listed solely in litres. > > There is an obvious typographical error on the label, in that it > says the volume is 3.67 L, instead of the more proper 3.78 L. > > My guess is that rather than being a miscalculation, the label > designer, or whomever actually input the label design, had > their fingers on the wrong keys and instead of hitting the 78 > they mistakenly hit 67. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
