No. Somethings are regulated under Federal authority and covered by the FPLA. Other things' net contents are regulated only by the States. It is always one or the other, never both, depending on the item. The UPLR serves as a model to the States on what laws to adopt for uniformity's sake, but it is up to them to adopt it or "roll their own."
If the last two States adopt UPLR, it might help convince Congress, but items regulated under FPLA would still have to be dual until Congress changes the law. It is certainly possible to debate which list (FPLA or UPLR regulated items) is "more important." It seems to me that the FPLA list is considerably more important and that the State or UPLR list is the "bits and pieces," but I acknowledge that position is debatable. A 50 State UPLR would allow a relatively minor list of items to be metric only. We need Congress to "man up" and amend the FPLA. If you want more info, the USMA website has a very good metric laws page, which summarizes this better than I can. ________________________________ From: Michael GLASS <m.gl...@optusnet.com.au> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Tue, April 5, 2011 11:18:04 AM Subject: [USMA:50291] Re: The FPLA amendment will likely make a difference One way to move forward on the question of optional metric-only labelling might be to approach the two remaining states that don't allow it and ask them to change their laws. If these two states could fall into line with the other 48 states, wouldn't the change be nation-wide? Michael Glass
