Dear Governor Cuomo, (at https://www.governor.ny.gov/contact)
I understand that New York State prides itself as being the first state in the Nation to adopt the enhanced International Symbol of Access (the so-called "handicap symbol") showing a dynamic wheelchair passenger propelling his chair forward. Why, then, is your state going to be the LAST state to adopt a progressive consumer labeling option on the metric system? Since 1999, the model Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation (UPLR) has provided manufacturers with the choice of showing only metric units on non-federally regulated product labels. From that year to the present, 55 out of 56 U.S. jurisdictions have adopted this voluntary regulation. ONLY New York State has not! Yet, your weights and measures law demands that voluntary and orderly conversion to the metric system "is of vital importance to the economy of thet state" (Article 16, Sec 176). When it adopts the UPLR metric option, New York State stands to go down in U.S. history as the state that paved the way for national choice in advancing metric measurement. I hope you will urge your officials to make this no-cost option available to New Yorkers. I shall certainly urge all New Yorkers to join in such support. SIncerely, Paul R. Trusten, Registered Pharmacist Vice President and Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 (432)528-7724 www.us-metric.org trus...@grandecom.net
