Brian

The analogy to swiss cheese was based on its holes.  The law passed by the
European Parliament is full of holes.  Any smelly cheese with holes would be
more appropriate for comparison.

The statement re risk assessment in Amendment 6, Recital 11, reads, "
Exemptions from the substitution requirement should be permitted if..not
possible from.scientific and technical point of view........or where
scientific evidence demonstrates that their use does not result in any
significant risk to health or the environment."

So it is an open ended law, far from final.  So the 1Jan 2006 prohibition of
lead is posturing, meant to please some of the constituents.

The document and more are available on <http://extra.ivf.se/dfee>.

Thanks Holly Evans of the EIA and Karl Tiefert of Agilent for your great
work, also Jennifer Guhl of the AeA, and others.
And thank you, Brian Ellis, for pointing out early that this emperor has no
clothes.
Perhaps the time is coming when environmental and health issues will be
treated with more sophistication and less dogma.

Harvey Miller

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