The Metric Petition: "Make the Metric system the standard in the United States
..."
A well documented Response:
1. The World Standard for units of measurement is the "International System of
Units (SI)."
2. The America COMPETES Act, Public Law 110-69 of 2007, states that the metric
system of measurement shall be defined as the International System of Units ..."
3. The Metric Conversion Act, Public Law 94-168 of 1975, designates the
"metric system of measurement as the preferred system ... for United States
trade and commerce."
4. In harmony with these acts of Congress, new digital Medical Records are now
entered almost 100% in SI units of measurement or in units approved for use
with SI units, for example, in liters or in milliliters or in deciliters.
5. Pharmacy products are now sold nearly 100% in SI units, whether by
prescription or by "over the counter" sale.
6. Labels on most Consumer Products, including Foods, now include declarations
of net contents in SI units.
7. Labels of "Nutritional Facts" on most containers of Foods are now nearly
100% in SI units.
8. The Automobile Manufacturing Industry, now international in scope, uses
nearly 100% SI units of measurement.
9. STEM education is predominately in SI units of measurement.
SI is already "the standard" for units of measurement in the United States!
Most units which lie outside the SI that are still used in the United
States, are now defined as numerical multiples of SI units. Metallic artifacts
are no longer maintained to define directly these units outside the SI.
For additional documentation see NIST SP 330 and NIST SP 811.
All the Acts and Documents cited above are downloadable over the Internet.
Eugene Mechtly
