At 11:12 30.01.01 -0600, you wrote:
>Pink poly, to my knowledge is a topically treated material.  This treatment
>can be transmitted to the board inside and could cause soldering issues.  My
>recommendation, if static is a concern is to use a shielding bag, with the
>foil layer inside.  This will not only provide you with ESD protection
>(which the pink poly does NOT) but it eliminates contamination concerns.


Hi,

China uses lots of these pink polybags, I can confirm, they are not
antistatic or ESD, they are just dyed pink.

Jens Behrens

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