On the labeling front Sesmark Rice Thins (made by a mfg in New Jersey) lists its mass nicely as 3.5 OZ (100g).
I bet this is another product that would happily drop floozies if we can ever get that **** FPLA amended! -- Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Payne" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 7:24:57 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:45943] Hard Cider Labeling Saw a bottle of Hard Cider yesterday day labeled as "22 ounces", I'm sure really means fluid ounces. No other quantity provided. It got me wondering what the law states here in the US on labeling hard Cider. In the US Cider is apple juice, Hard cider has an alcohol content. According to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (what a mouthful) http://www.ttb.gov/ Hard Cider is apple wine: *Hard Cider* Still wine derived primarily from apples or apple concentrate and water (apple juice, or the equivalent amount of concentrate reconstituted to the original brix of the juice prior to concentration, must represent more than 50 percent of the volume of the finished product) containing no other fruit product nor any artificial product which imparts a fruit flavor other than apple; containing at least one-half of one percent (0.5%) and less than seven percent alcohol by volume; having the taste, aroma, and characteristics generally attributed to hard cider; and sold or offered for sale as hard cider. *High-proof concentrate* For wine: A volatile fruit-flavor concentrate (essence) that has an alcohol content of more than 24 percent by volume and is unfit for beverage use (nonpotable) because of its natural constituents, i.e., without the addition of other substances. http://www.ttb.gov/forms_tutorials/glossary/letter_h.html http://www.ttb.gov/forms/f512036worksheet.pdf This leads me to wonder if the bottle is required to be labeled like wine with milliliters only. Anyone have any other information or input. I'm thinking of writing to the bottler in Michigan, who stated in an email that it's about 660 mL, "a common size for Cider in the US". Mike Payne
