Pierre,
Some fresh produce may be sold by weight or by dry (capacity or volume)
measure: e.g., beans, berries, tomatoes, plums, mushrooms, etc. Some
fresh produce may be sold by weight or by count. Some fresh produce must
be sold by weight.
Those are not required to have SI units indicated.
I, too, find it frustrating. How does one compare the prices on fresh
strawberries (sold by the pint) and frozen strawberries (sold by the
pound and gram)? Which one is the better deal? I've been known to put a
pint of strawberries on the scale in the produce department to make that
comparison. (I mentally allow for packaging and trim waste.) It sure
gets me some strange looks!
Jim
Pierre Abbat wrote:
I've bought some cherry tomatoes that came in a package marked "one dry pint",
with no metric equivalent. (I've also seen some packages with an equivalent
in milliliters.) I sent an email pointing out that labeling a grocery
only "one dry pint" is illegal and asking that they be labeled in grams (I
weigh tomatoes when making a recipe).
I just brought up the FPLA and there is no mention of a dry pint anywhere.
There's no mention of a liter either. The regulations mention dry pints, but
is it legal to sell tomatoes by volume? I think they're too big to be
accurately measured by volume and should be sold by mass.
Pierre
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