I readily admit naivete, but I think I heard somewhere that in trade
precision has to error to the too much side not �1 only +1. Certainly the
blanket statement that nothing is packaged to 1 gram precision is doomed to
counter examples. It all depends on the size of the package. A stick of
gum is probably to a 1 g precision or tighter, a 5 kg bag of rice, I doubt
it.
BTW when I worked in the pharmaceutical world we had one drug that was so
active the dose was 6 �g. Formulating tablets to that precision (about �1
�g) was a major challenge.
Scott C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:43 AM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:8955] RE: gram precision
>
>
> Perhaps my faith in the packaging industry is misplaced or naive, but I
> personally would suspect that there are many products packaged to at
> least a �1 g precision. This may be less true in the retail market, but
> medicines, expensive industrial supplies, etc. are probably quite
> precisely packaged. Heck, consider all those jars of Fischer reagents!
>
> Jim
>
> Dennis Brownridge wrote:
> >
> > OK Gene, how about "ALMOST nothing is packaged to gram or milliliter
> > precision."?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gene Mechtly
> > >
> > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Dennis Brownridge wrote:
> > > > Nothing is packaged to gram or milliliter precision,...
> > > Superglues are ofter packages in amounts of a gram or two.
> > > Less than a gram of "nothing" is sufficient to tear the skin off
> > > fingers after less than a second of contact!
> > > Gene.
> > >
> > >
>
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