In the article referred to in the message from John Steele: > Story about a 7th grade class that reviews products for labeling errors > involving metric usage, and writes letters to the company. > http://www.woodburybulletin.com/event/article/id/36511/group/homepage/
there was the following comment: > Victor Ding and Nick Konrad ... (pointed) out the misusage of a capital “G” > for grams. However, the company informed the boys that the usage was in fact > correct through approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. > Does anyone know if the US Food & Drug Admin. really sanctions or even requires the incorrect use of the capital "G" for grams, and discourages or perhaps forbids the correct lower case "g"? Bill Hooper 73 kg body mass* Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA * plus or minus a kilogram or so.
