SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Public Forum on
- Notice Date
- 10/10/2002
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition and Logistics Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 3571, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-3571
- ZIP Code
- 20899-3571
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-03-SN-0001
- Archive Date
- 11/7/2002
- Point of Contact
- Romena Moy, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 975-4999, Fax (301) 975-8884,
- E-Mail Address
-
Romena.Moy@nist.gov
- Description
- The U.S. Dept. of Commerce and the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) are pleased to announce a public forum on "Efforts to Update Federal and State Packaging and Labeling Laws and Regulations to Give Manufacturers the Option to Voluntarily Label Packages with Only Metric Units." The forum will be held Thursday, November 7, 2002, from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM at U.S. Dept. of Commerce Auditorium, Herbert C. Hoover Bldg., 14th & Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. The forum is free and open to the public but space will be limited. Advanced registration required - deadline Nov. 1, 2002. The complete forum notice and registration form is contained in the attached flyer. Through this forum NIST & NCWM will seek to provide an opportunity for consumers, manufacturers, packagers, exporters and importers, retailers, federal and state agencies, and other interested parties to express their views on removing restrictions on voluntary, metric-only labeling. NIST & NCWM will present information on the progress in the states to allow voluntary, metric-only labeling and a proposal to amend the U.S. Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) so all packagers have the option of using only metric units on package labels. Since 1992, the FPLA has required consumer package labels to list both metric and inch-pound units. Either measurement unit may appear first on the label. NIST & NCWM believe that updating current federal regulatory requirements to give manufacturers the option to market products in the United States labeled only in metric units is now necessary. While the FPLA, and other Federal regulations, govern the labeling requirements for many consumer products, many other products fall under State requirements. Since January 1, 2000, the Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation (UPLR), as adopted by the NCWM, has allowed the option of metric-only quantity declarations on consumer packages. NIST welcomes concerned businesses' participation and help in working to complete this vital step to help consumers in the United States better understand, and use, the already increasingly present decimal-based metric system to make more informed value comparisons.
- Place of Performance
- Address: WASHINGTON, D.C.
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN00185982-W 20021012/021010213132 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
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