The Institute of Medicine has put out a new table of DRIs for vitamins
and minerals, according to an article in today's paper. The table in our
paper showed all vitamin quantities in either milligrams or micrograms,
with the exception of vitamin D, which was in international units.
Dietary
I found this on the Yahoo Metricamerica Club,
Han
International proposal millitesla
12/15/00 10:44 pm
I've been sent the following draft proposal:
ICSCA VII Meeting on 21 and 22 February 2001 in Singapore
Title: Metric
Statement of Issue: The use of “Metric only Units”.
Background:
There was a brief new item on Thoburn's case on the CBC supper hour news program
"Canada Now".
I have been looking for the article on-line, but with no luck.
In summary the reporter summarized the case that Thoburn and a few grocers are
protesting the use of metric in their shops as a
Sorry this is reposted, but I didn't see it appear on the listserv...
Nat
Recent articles on the UK situation, including WashingtonPost, Times London,
Scotsman, Independent, Financial Times, and Telegraph. Uploaded to:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:07:13 -0500, you wrote:
Chris,
It seems that the Guardian article makes it fairly simple. If the British
do not wish to forego the benefits of being in the large single market of
the EU, they must honor their agreement to use the weights and measures
agreed to by all
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:36:57 -0500, you wrote:
There was a brief new item on Thoburn's case on the CBC supper hour news program
"Canada Now".
I have been looking for the article on-line, but with no luck.
In summary the reporter summarized the case that Thoburn and a few grocers are
Chris, you and your web site are doing wonderful things. Good job!
Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just done a live interview with ABC radio in Canberra, and the
general feeling there is that the UK is appearing as a laughing stock.
The presenter of the show said they changed 'one
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:06:33 -0500, you wrote:
Chris, you and your web site are doing wonderful things. Good job!
Jim
You're too kind, Jim. I wish I could do more. I'm not sure if it does
more than reassure those who support us, and annoy those who are
already agin us.
Chris
--
Metrication
I love that line, ". . . that mysterious British measure that's equivalent
to 14 pounds." Yeah, it's a mystery to North Americans, all right... :-)
--Kent
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
A gram of prevention, a kilo of cure
Stubborn fruit vendor has become symbol
of metric's
There was also a CBC report that was on their Web site, but their search
engine is really lame, I'm sorry to say; I can't retrieve it.
--Kent
From the CBC Web site... at cbc.ca
It's the kilogram versus the pound as metric goes on trial in Britain
KEVIN WARD
2001-01-17
Below is an excerpt from the Guardian unlimited:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,422250,00.html
Here is that stupid comment about downsizing only when metric is used.
Linacre should come to the USA and see the practice done here, but with
ounces being used. These are facts
Chris wrote:
The Guardian has a better-than-most article at
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,422591,00.html
If you go back there, you can also find another article about Thoburn there.
In the Word 97 attachment are all three articles, two from the Guardian, the
other
Can someone please remind me what the US regs are for selling loose
produce? Is sale by the kg permitted?
--
Chris KEENAN
UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
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