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The metric changeover – a continuum or a barrier to surmount?
Readers may have seen versions of world maps showing ‘non-metric’ countries, usually Liberia, Myanmar and the US. The previous article on Metric Views generated comments about the qualifications for membership of this select band, and we now consider this further.
Will the European Commission challenge US labelling rules?
A recent posting by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) has prompted this question: Are American labelling requirements now illegal under WTO rules?
Posted in Consumer affairs, General, Law
Tagged dual-unit, EU, European Commission, Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, FPLA, metric, NIST, pint, weights and measures, World Trade Organisation, WTO
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