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Brian

You know waayyy too much!

All techies - have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous
New Year

Graham Naisbitt


On 22/12/05 11:28, "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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>>              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]
>>
>> 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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