There is some progress here:
In Sprouts Farmers Market near me, I saw bottles
of olive oil for sale by the liter.
The label shows the volume as: 1 L (1000.0 ml)
No legacy measures were seen.
Sprouts is a chain in California and many
western states similar to Whole Foods.
On the marine mammal center
If you have a specific example of a grain/gram error that led to the death
of a patient, then send it in. (One grain is 64.80 mg, making a gram about
16 grains).
-Original Message-
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of Metric Rules Info
Sent: 24 May
These are great examples. Perhaps, USMA should contact the BBC writer to add
medical miscalculations to the list!
> http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27509559
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-Original Message-
From: James
Sent: Thursday, 2014-05-22 10:56
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53856] Group Urges Going Metric to Head Off Dosing Mistakes
This is a very intere
No, it is an excellent analogy. We are not talking about being lax about
spelling, we are talking about using the wrong symbols for units. It is one
think to say a 5 K race, it is another to write it as 5 K instead of the proper
5 km.
We see what happens in the medical profession when peopl
I agree! Without proper rules and adherence to them , you just have another
USC or imperial.
From: Mark Henschel
Sent: Friday, 2014-05-23 20:19
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53871] RE: Phil Chernack's message
Would you teach people English, and then
Gene,
I understand your view that the NCWM issues with USC seem futile and useless. I
would like to express a different view.
I have been concerned the FTC will simply ignore the comments and take a
do-nothing position, and repeat the whole exercise in ten years. I believe the
concerns raised
Bad analogy. The units are not changed, it is just spelling, like harbor and
harbour, or tire and tyre. Someone from the UK might read tire and think of
the wrong definition but will figure it out from the context. Some Americans
would not even know what tyre means, but again, it can be figur
