Wine and liquor are metric only and have been for many years. Beer is
required to have U.S. Customary labeling, with optional metric in
parentheses.

I wasn't aware of the ATF having anything to do with the regulations on
quantity labeling. However, I'll leave it to someone who actually knows, one
way or the other, to address that issue.

Bill Potts
SI Navigator (http://metric1.org)

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Scott Hudnall
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 09:18
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:39221] Re: Metric only labeling

Isn't ATF an all - metric shop? I haven't purchased alcohol in some time,
but I seem to remember that hard liquor and wine are already labelled in
metric-only. Beer may be a different story.

 
On Wednesday, August 01, 2007, at 06:53AM, "STANLEY DOORE"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>    Newspapers are now reporting that the U.S. Treasury Department is
considering a new rule that would require companies to put content labels
for alcohol on all alcoholic-drink packaging.  This would include beer cans
to wine bottles.
>    
>    A major letter writing and contact campaign should begin now to allow
these labels to carry metric only labels since there will be no or
insignificant cost for metric only labeling to be added by if it is done in
conjunction with the change to new labels.
>
>    It an opportunity which should not be missed.
>
>    Go Metric!
>
>Regards,  Stan Doore
>

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