Dear USMA Listserver Subscribers and friends of U.S. Metrication, NIST Laws and Metric Group Coordinator Elizabeth Gentry has asked me to seek one vital ingredient that all those who support U.S. metrication can provide: demand for U.S. products and services that use the metric system of measurement.
If the American people want metric products, they must ask for them. U.S. industry listens to consumer demand! If you use a product that you would want to see in metric, contact the manufacturer and tell it so. If you discover a product that is marketed in metric sizes, or a publisher that uses or emphasizes the metric system in it publications, contact both the publisher and the author and express your support for their stance on metric units. They will listen! In your demand messages for metric products, remember to mention the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, in which Congress declared metric to be the "preferred system of measurement" for U.S. trade and commerce. SIncerely, Paul Trusten, Registered Pharmacist Vice President and Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org trus...@grandecom.net +1(432)528-8824
