Understood. UPLR is state regulation. FPLA is Federal regulation. All we ask now for the USA is legal *permission* (the *option*) to label all consumer products (whether under UPLR or FPLA jurisdiction) in metric-only units of measurement.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:29:40 -0500 >From: "Paul Trusten" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:50384] UPLR and FPLA amendments allow metric-only OPTIONS >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > Just to clarify once more: the UPLR model state > regulation and the proposed amendment to the FPLA > establish options for U.S. manufacturers to drop the > non-metric units from their product labels. These > measures do not REQUIRE that they do so. > > Paul > > Paul R. Trusten > Registered Pharmacist > Vice President and Public Relations Director > U.S. Metric Association, Inc. > www.metric.org > [email protected] > +1(432)528-7724 >
