Can anyone familiar with the wording of the proposed amendments to the FPLA address the question of whether such amendments will permit dose cups marked only in metric units (with the outside packaging also labelled only in metric, I would presume) or will some other legislation be needed to permit this?
Ezra Terry Simpson wrote: > Here is an example of where the FDA issued a recall notice because tylenol > was packed with dose cups that were marked with metric units: > > [begin quote] > "Defective container; product packaged with incorrect dosing cups marked > with metric measurements rather than with U.S. standard measurements" > [end quote] > http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/enforce/2002/ENF00775.html > > -- > Terry Simpson > Human Factors Consultant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.connected-systems.com > Phone: +44 7850 511794 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of John Woelflein > Sent: 18 January 2003 14:30 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:24485] Re: non-metric units on medicine > > I'm not sure, but I haven't seen grains for a long time (bottles of aspirin, > so many grains per tablet). Most are grams or milligrams now. Also, > millilitres seem to be making headway in the liquid medications, i.e. the > dosage says to take 5 ml instead of a teaspoon. Most medicine droppers are > marked in ml only now. > When my daughter was in the hospital a month ago for spinal fusion surgery, > everything was metric (although they said "cc" instead of ml or cm3. Her > mass was recorded in kilograms, temperature in degrees Celsius, and so on. > (This was at Children's Hospital in Boston.) > Terry Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it true that medicines in the US can have non-metric units on them such > as 'grains'? > > -- > Terry Simpson > Human Factors Consultant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.connected-systems.com > Phone: +44 7850 511794 > > John > > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
