Where do you get that it is illegal to sell by the "dry pint?" Produce is not covered by the FPLA, It is up to states to determine how produce is measured. Keep in mind that most laws governing the sale of dairy and produce go back 100 or so years. In some cases, these laws have been updated. As for metric, even though the law may specifically state that a particular item is to measured in some kind of bushel or whatever, most states have a blanket law that permits (or more to the point, doesn't prohibit) the use of metric measures for all purposes. What these laws don't do is make metric mandatory.
The best bet is to go to your state legislature's website and look up the statutes regarding metric. Keep in mind that not all law is statutory but may be administrative as well. Administrative law is made through a rules process with public comment rather than the legislative process. Folks, you have to get away from this notion that all measurement law is covered by the FPLA and UPLR. Certain things are governed by the FPLA. The UPLR is not even a law, rather a model law for states to adopt regarding all sorts of things, not just metric-only labeling. Some states have adopted permissive metric-only labeling without adopting the UPLR as written. If you really want to have an impact on metric related law, it helps to do the following: 1. Live in the state you are trying to influence. 2. Research what the current laws are regarding measurement 3. Find out the appropriate parties to contact (legislative and administrative) 4. Plan out a well-reasoned and thoughtful position like consumer protection (rather than "the rest of the country/world does") If you don't follow these steps (or a variation of them) you are just tilting at windmills. Phil On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >
