That's a good example of the FDA's use of the symbols, Baron. Somewhere
there is a page (or more) of specified symbols. It includes MCG for
microgram, etc. I suspect these arose in the days when the only known
typographic characters had ASCII values less than 128 and no printers
had more than nine pins. (T.I.C.)
Jim
"Carter, Baron" wrote:
>
> http://www.fda.gov/cder/dsm/POL/pol-004.htm
>
> Baron Carter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James R. Frysinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2000 08:16
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9926] Re: MG on Rx labels
>
> This is a result of requirements by the FDA. I posted the citation here
> some time ago but don't see a copy handy in my files. It can be found
> via the FDA website. Who says that the agency responsible for our
> prescription drugs is not up to date!
>
> Jim
>
> Harry Wyeth wrote:
> >
> > Someone mentioned something about erroneous capitalizations on some kind
> of
> > labels (GM or GR or some such). I recently noticed that on a number of
> > prescription labels we have the ingredients are listed as xxx MG, not mg.
> > Seems to be common, and the labels are on pill bottles from a number of
> > different pharmacies.
> >
> > Is this as common as it appears? The labels appear be be generated by
> some
> > sort of computer or word-processing program. Is this a product of the
> > pharmaceutical profession in the US?
> >
> > HARRY WYETH
>
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