THE REGULATORS; Message on a Bottle: In U.S., It's `Milliliter' From: The Washington Post | Date: July 9, 1999| Author: Cindy Skrzycki | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has saved us from centiliters. And maybe even dekameters, decimeters and hectometers.

In response to a petition from a vintner in Old Brookville, N.Y., to label 750-milliliter, or "750 ml," wine bottles as "75 cl," ATF said, charitably, that this would just be too confusing for American consumers.

The agency, which regulates the "metric standards of fill" for wine, said it's best to stick to milliliters as the uni...

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