I assumed that since the post mentioned the Treasury Department, they were talking about ATF, which has metric-only label requirements. Beer, I believe falls under FDA jurisdiction.
On Wednesday, August 01, 2007, at 09:35AM, "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 >> > > >
