Title: Re: [USMA:34145] Message sent to FMI
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No he didn't get a response. If he had, he would
have posted it here.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, 2005-10-20 18:50
Subject: [USMA:34953] Re: Message sent to
FMI
Dear
John,
Did you ever have a response from the Food Marketing Institute to
you letter (copied below)?
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305
Belmont 3216
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.metricationmatters.com
on 2005-08-29 04.00, John Nichols at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear
Sir:
We
have several thousand deaths per year from medical errors made because of
the use of US customary units in some aspects of medicine. (Refer to the CDC
website for more details on deaths particularly amongst children from these
types of mistakes or do a web search.) Your organization I understand
objects, the words I have heard used are strongly, to metric only packaging.
I would
appreciate your advice as to whether
1. your membership follows a code of
ethics
2. if so, how do you reconcile your code of ethics with the death
of children in the US from mistakes made using the US customary units system
in medicine when it is commonly acknowledged that a change would save
lives.
3. what value does your organization place on human life.
4.
how do you reconcile the provision of medical products in one part of your
store in metric and milk in US customary units.
Perhaps you have never
attended a funeral for a child that has died as a result of a medical error.
It is very harrowing. I suggest that your board consider this matter.
I would
appreciate a written response to the address above.
John
Nichols
John M. Nichols
Assistant Professor
Room A414 Langford AC
MS 3137
Department of Construction Science
College of
Architecture
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
77843-3137
Phone: (979) 845 6541
Fax: (979) 862
1572
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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