That should be thanks to Jim Frysinger and John Steele. Sorry for the error, John!
On Apr 15, 2014, at 7:58 AM, mechtly, eugene a <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Frysinger and Jim Steele have persuaded me that comment on the current > Notice by the FTC in the Federal Register can be important for the > advancement of SI in the USA. > > Consider the detailed wording of (1) the existing FPLA, and (2) the nearly > completed initiative at NIST to develop a Guide for Unit Pricing. > > A word by word examination of the existing FPLA reveals that only *total > amounts* of a product contained in a package for consumers must be declared > on labels in dual units; metric and not metric, e.g. grams and ounces. > > There is absolutely *no mention* of the units required for “Unit Pricing” or > even mention of the term “Unit Pricing” in the existing FPLA. > > In other words, there is *no legal exclusion* of Unit Pricing in > *metric-only* units. e.g. cents per gram” in “dollars per kilogram” In > “cents per milliliter”, etc. by the enforcers of the existing FPLA! > > I plan to recommend, in response to the Notice by the Federal Trade > Commission, that the FTC adopt a rule that permits *metric only* Unit Pricing > of commodities regulated by the FTC. > > Eugene Mechtly
