Politely point out to them the (international) standard way of writing
these symbols.
Duncan
-----Original Message-----
From: James R. Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 21, 2000 10:13
Subject: [USMA:9931] Re: MG on Rx labels
>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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