Here in the Washington, DC area Monday is the day for liquor store ads in the paper, so I did a little survey this morning.
Everyone advertises in metric only, except for one small group calling itself the "Cork Club" which slips "59.2 oz" in tiny print on a couple of the 1.5 L ads. Beer of course is shown as "12 oz" because of the long-standing failure of that part of the government to fix that. Sounds like you've got a recalcitrant, ornery store owner up there. Carleton -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Howard Ressel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Without taking the time to read the law, does anyone know: > > Does the present law require liqueur stores to "Advertise" in metric > only labels for spirits and wines or does the law allow advertisement in > English only units? We have one liqueur store that converts and > advertise in English. Several of us have written letters had have had no > response. Perhaps if what they are doing is illegal we can take it to > the next level or at least write them back stating the law and convince > them to change on that basis. > > Howard Ressel > Project Design Engineer, Region 4 > (585) 272-3372 > > >>> Paul Armstrong 12/16/2007 4:27 PM >>> > A reminder for those who are interested in commenting on Labeling and > Advertising of Wines, Distilled Spirits and Malt Beverages (Notice No. > 73) (Further notes at http://gometric.us/jforum/posts/list/94.page), > comments are due by 2008-01-28. This gives us 6 weeks to get any > further > comments in. > > The proposal is linked to the forum post that's linked above, but if > you're interested in searching on > http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main you may find the > following information useful: > * Docket ID: TTB-2007-0062 > * Document ID: TTB-2007-0062-0001 > * Document Title: Labeling and Advertising of Wines, Distilled Spirits > and Malt Beverages (Notice No. 73) > * Type: PROPOSED RULES > * Comments Due By: 2008-01-28 > > You can see other comments by clicking on the Docket ID after doing a > search on regulations.gov for the document. > > Comments can be electronically submitted by clicking on the comment > voice bubble under the comments column. > > Paul > > -- > End dual-measurement, let's finish going metric! > http://gometric.us/ > http://www.metric.org/ >
