My printed copies of the 2013 editions of Handbooks 44, 130, and 133 arrived by USPS in today's mail.
Handbook 130, Uniform Laws and Regulations in the areas of legal metrology..., is of greatest interest because it contains the "Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation" (UPLR), a regulation similar to the federal FPLA, adopted for regulation of consumer products in most of the states (Alabama and New York being the last to adopt), that are not regulated by federal laws. At first glance I see that inch-pound units continue to be intermingled with SI units. For many years, I have tried to persuade the NCWM and NIST to cleanly separate inch-pound units from the SI so that regulations governing units outside the SI can be discarded sometime before the end of the 21st Century. Separation of i-p units from the SI remains an objective of mine. Do you support this objective? If so, help persuade the NCWM and NIST to do the separation in new editions of their printed documents. Eugene Mechtly
