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The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act is a US law that applies to labels on many consumer products. It requires the label to state: The contents statement must include both metric and U.S. customary units. Passed under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, the law first took effect on July 1, 1967. The metric labeling requirement was added in 1992 and took effect on February 14, 1994. The law is codified as 15 USC 1451–1461. Currently, there is a strong effort underway by industry to amend the FPLA to allow manufacturers to use metric-only labeling.• In light of a January 1 2010 European Union deadline that will no longer allow dual-unit product labeling,• an amendment to the FPLA to allow metric-only labeling would allow manufacturers, both importers and exporters, to avoid the significant costs associated with the potential necessity of producing two distinct package types.
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