Rounded values are a mixed blessing and if not done according to the law, could result in prosecution for selling “short measure”. In the UK, the law is that apart from a few items, the metric quantity is the definitive quantity and is the quantity against which any legal action could be taken under weights and measures legislation. The law is however silent about the role of the associated “supplementary indicator”. My guess is that as long as it does not deceive the customer, then any inaccuracies will be overlooked. It is significant that the only products that regularly have a non-metric quantity on them are cosmetics which often have floz as well as millilitres. I have checked the ml-floz conversion and it appears that most used US floz, not imperial floz as this will enable the product to be sold on both the European and the US markets.
From: USMA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ressel, Howard R (DOT) Sent: 20 March 2020 11:59 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA 1314] Re: It took me a while to figure this out. Yes this is nothing new all products are labeled that way although once in a while you find a rational metric size. It is nice that they rounded however. Wegmans here sold metric milk probably over 10 years ago but the container size was strange, people hated the containers and it killed it (not the fact it was metric). Howard From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Remek Kocz Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:15 PM To: Mark Henschel <[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>; Benham, Elizabeth (Fed) <[email protected]>; [email protected]; U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA 1313] Re: It took me a while to figure this out. ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. 96 oz is 3 quarts, so the 2.8 L is just nicely rounded that's all. They're still thinking in customary. Remek On Mar 19, 2020, at 19:59, Mark Henschel <[email protected]> wrote: I noticed this strange size of milk bottle in a Wisconsin grocery store a few weeks ago and it surprised me. Since the major drinks in Wisconsin are milk and beer, these are sacred commodities here. So to see a 2.8 liter milk bottle was quite unusual. One expects gallon, or half gallon, or quart, or pint or maybe 12 ounces. But 2.8 liters? Could the Wisconsin dairy industry have secretly gone metric in the middle of the night and not told anybody about it? What an amazing event, were it to be true. But upon further math I realized that this size is really 96 ounces, which is three quarts. Not two quarts, Not four quarts. Not one quart. But three quarts? If people accept 2.8 liters, and not the typical one, two or four quart sizes, one would hope they would also accept a three liters size. It really looked good there for a moment, like Wisconsin had quietly gone metric, but even three quarts shows people are willing to accept different dairy product sizes rather than the standard one, two or four quart sizes. Mark Henschel _____ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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