It really doesn't matter whether they like metric.  Dual is the law and their 
label fails to comply with the law.

I can't weigh it to the 40 mg level.  At best, I can weigh to the nearest gram, 
and that is probably dubious.  But that really isn't material either; their 
label does not meet the legal requirements.

If they knew and complied with the law, they could make the decision whether to 
go for a net contents of 1.75 oz. or 50 g. (It is a dry, round cake of soap in 
a cardboard box.)



--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> From: Jeremiah MacGregor <[email protected]>
> Subject: [USMA:43280] Re: Williams Shaving Soap, no metric net contents
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 7:13 PM
> Maybe Williams doesn't like to include metric on their
> label because then it wouldn't have such an old
> fashioned appeal.
> 
> If the product is exported it may have a different label on
> it and it is sold as a 50 g product.
> 
> On the other hand it could made elsewhere and imported in a
> 50 g jar.  It just carries the 1.75 oz as the closest
> approximation.  Have you ever weighed the product yourself
> and subtracted the weight of the jar to see if you are
> really getting a 50 g product?  Do you really think the
> 1.75 oz amount was chosen as the primary fill amount and it
> just so happened that amount is a mere 400 mg shy of 50
> g?  
> 
> Jerry
 3 oz, 85g.

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