My posting was about everyday consumer stuff, not medicines. I have
carefully weighed and measured a lot of boxes and bottles of stuff, and
found that the net contents vary as much as 50 mL or 50 g from the stated
value. Of course, it depends on the size of the package. Teeny packages may
be close, but they are rare. The point was that most people have no need or
ability to measure to gram or milliliter precision, but they are obliged by
government regulations to deal with a lot of useless zeroes or
falsely-precise digits.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James R. Frysinger
> >
> 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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