Well,
This lead to another question: what will happen with corpse of someone,who
in his life was shut, but bullet was not extracted????
Edward
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Ellis [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: ה דצמבר 22 2005 13:28
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> Subject: Re: [TN] RoHS Category 8 & 9 Inclusion
>
> Doug
>
> a) a pacemaker is in a hermetically sealed titanium case, so lead cannot
> leach out (otherwise it would leach out in the implantee's body!)
> b) I'm told the pacemaker I wear has no solder in it, anyway, as the
> joints are all in silver-bearing conductive adhesive
> c) funeral directors, undertakers, croque-morts, doctors, nurses etc.
> remove all metal from cadavers, in any case, (gold teeth, amalgams
> because of mercury, titanium in hip joints, jewellery etc. are all
> moneyable and pacemakers are sold to developing countries for recycling
> if the batteries still have some good life in them). In any case, a
> pacemaker accidentally left in will explode violently during cremation,
> prematurely scattering the ashes to Kingdom come and damaging the oven!
>
> Lugubrious thoughts for Happy Holidays! :-)
>
> Brian
>
> Douglas O. Pauls wrote:
> > Which of course brings us to an interesting question. If medical
> devices,
> > such as pacemakers remain exempt, then will a human corpse now be banned
> > from being buried as he/she is now a lead bearing disposal container?
> >
> > Doug Pauls
> > Man do I need a vacation.......
> >
> >
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> > Paula Esty
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> > 12/21/2005 02:52 [TN] RoHS Category 8 & 9
> Inclusion
> > PM
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> > FYI -
> >
> > Currently Category 8 Medical Devices is excluded from the RoHS directive
> > (in
> > addition, category 9 Monitoring and Control Devices is also excluded).
> The
> > Technical Adaptation Committee (TAC) issued an invitation to tender for
> > technical consultants to take on the study of categories 8 & 9 and to
> put
> > forward recommendations on whether these categories should be included
> > within the scope of RoHS. The bidder selection process is now completed
> > and
> > the contract for review was issued to ERA Technology out of the U.K.
> > http://www.era.co.uk/news/pr0516.asp
> >
> > ERA is Currently seeking Category 8 Medical Device and Category 9
> > Monitoring
> > and Control producers and stakeholders to submit supporting information
> for
> > why medical and Monitoring and Control products should or should not be
> > added back into the directive. For further information and/or to
> > participate in this, contact: Dr. Paul Goodman at ERA Technology by
> > telephone : +44 (0) 1372 367221 or email: [log in to unmask]
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> > The results of ERA's review will be used by the European Commission to
> > prepare a proposal to be made to the European Parliament and the
> Council,
> > which will act in co-decision to amend the RoHs Directive. ERA would be
> > pleased to hear from manufacturers, trade associations and NGOs (etc)
> who
> > would like to contribute to this review and in particular manufacturers
> of
> > equipment that contain restricted substances that cannot currently be
> > replaced by other materials or by a design change.
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