There is nothing that has been presented to Congress to revise the FPLA.
As NIST has noted for a few years now, the Food Marketing Institute
(FMI) has been a formidable opponent of an optional metric-only FPLA.
They have posted some discussion of this on their website.* To present a
suggested amendment now would definitely be futile. NIST continues to
negotiate with the FMI on this matter and I think that some progress is
being made.
Jim
* We were without electricity for several hours and got it back only in
time for me to check essential mail, leaks, etc. before bedtime. I trust
interested parties can look the matter up on their website. Metric Today
(USMA's newsletter) has discussed this, too.
On 2011-04-04 2004, [email protected] wrote:
I am working in one of the data centers run by the company I work for
and I noticed the bottle of Purell hand sanitizer placed in all of the
break rooms is marked thus:
67.6 FL OZ (2 L)
The product is distributed by GOJO Industries in Akron, Ohio and is
bottled for commercial use only.
If the FPLA were amended to allow metric-only labeling, I'm sure the
next batch of labels printed by GOJO would drop the floozies. And I'm
sure lots of companies would do the same for their retail packaging as well.
Too bad we have an uninterested Congress now, especially in the House of
Representatives.
Ezra
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Doyle, TN 38559-3030
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