Archive for January, 2009

Free-for-all on packages sizes, but no help for consumers?

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The Government has published its decisions on deregulating package sizes (as required by a 2007 EU Directive), including advice for business.  But so far no advice for consumers.

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‘User-Friendly’ metric

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

One of our readers, John Frewen-Lord, asks why popular resistance to the simplicity of metric measures is now limited to a few English-speaking countries. With change in the air, he makes a few suggestions to help the stalled metric changeovers. If you are a Metric ‘Purist’, turn away now…

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Will 2009 bring metric-only labelling to the USA?

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

The coming year may see progress in this area. MetricViews offers a guide for the novice.

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