Are you being serious? To trail three zeros after a decimal point for all produce? Are you aware what 0.001 ml looks like? (Or 0.001 pint, if you want to include UK milk, etc)
(Apart from this post being the obvious attempt to provoke Lee into this debate, in parallel to the 'non-debate' about "568 ml not being equal to 1 pint" pedantry nonsense on www.metric-versus-imperial.com) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:17:29 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:44909] RE: FPLA 2010 To: [email protected] This brings to mind a question as to how these milk bottles are filled in the factory. Do the machines that fill them use pints or litres? I would assume litres, and if I'm correct, then what excellent machines they must be to measure the contents to the accuracy of 1 mL without any variance. A perfect fill for each container. Since they are able to accurately fill the bottle to a 1 mL accuracy, then why doesn't the pint declaration also contain the same level of accuracy? Why is it labeled as 2 pints and not 2.000 pints in order to have the same level of accuracy. With that in mind, those milk bottles that are in rounded litres, why don't they mark the amount as 1.000 L instead of just 1 L to show that the accuracy of the fill is to 1 mL? Jerry From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:12:08 AM Subject: [USMA:44894] RE: FPLA 2010 I have just checked a plastic milk ”bottle” in out fridge. It says “1.136 litres 2 pints”. This is almost universal. If the “1.136 litres” was missing, then the buyer should take the empty bottle back once finished so that the seller could reuse it. Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:07:58 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:44890] RE: FPLA 2010 To: [email protected] But isn't the requirement for milk in pints (568 mL) limited to those glass bottles delivered only at ones door? Do you know approximately how many people still purchase milk from a milkman? Jerry From: Martin Vlietstra < [email protected] > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 5:00:24 PM Subject: [USMA:44886] RE: FPLA 2010 The UK is a member state of the EU and in theory the packaging requirements of all states is identical, except for a few items such as milk that is served in returnable containers which, in the UK , may be in pints. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 27 April 2009 18:06 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44885] FPLA 2010 Mike, The date the European Union *requires* metric units as primary indications of amount of contents in packages and on labels and in documentation of packages is 2010 January 1. However, Member States of the EU are anticipated to *permit* but not require non-metric units as "supplementary indications" beyond January 1, as does the UK now. Since "2010 January 1" is a "transition" date it seems appropriate as the target date for a new FPLA; "FPLA 2010" with time for new legislation in the United States . The present FPLA *requires both* metric and inch-pound units. This requirement for duality *does not* conform with the EU Metric Directive which requires metric units and merely permits non-metric units, even beyond January 1 ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:18:24 +0000 >From: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [USMA:44855] FPLA 2010 as FPLA-4-24.pdf >To: [email protected], "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >Cc: <[email protected]> > > Why 2010? It should be 2009! > > Mike Holmes > > -------------- Original message from > <[email protected]>: -------------- > > > Public Law 100-418 designates the metric system > of measurements as preferred for > > United States trade and commerce... It is not > 481. > > > > Attached is Draft FPLA-4-24.pdf which makes that > correction. > > Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. Try it Now! _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
