Interesting articles / blogs from the UK on the subject of RoHS and lead
free soldering - neat quotes from the IPC in lead in solders - the first
article is quoted here:

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" Fern Abrams, director of environmental policy at IPC, praised European
efforts in many environmental areas, but she raised similar points about
lead-free solder. "It's an alleged environmental switch that doesn't have
many environmental benefits," she said. In its overall impact on acid rain,
strip mining and other concerns, Abrams claimed that lead-free solder gets
worse grades in every area.

IPC's official position statement says: "All available scientific evidence
and U.S. government reports indicate that the lead used in U.S. printed
circuit board (PCB) manufacturing and electronic assembly produces no
significant environmental or health hazards.""
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Hmmmmmmmmm I think maybe if you combine Dawn's insight into the
environmental issues of the replacement, with the IPC position on the lack
of issues with tin/lead, then there might be an urgent need for a new IPC
statement right? Which might say:

"All available scientific evidence and U.S. government reports indicate that
the lead used in U.S. printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing and
electronic assembly produces no significant environmental or health hazards.
All available scientific evidence and U.S. government reports indicate that
the replacement lead-free soldering material has higher environmental impact
than the materials that it replaces"

Or am I missing something here. The IPC has an excellent resource in Dawn as
Director of environmental policy - why not let Dawn just go ahead and tell
it like it is - officially?

Here are the links:

http://tinyurl.com/evs49

http://tinyurl.com/f4am3


Kind regards,

John Burke

http://www.RoHSUSA.com

http://www.RoHSUSA.com/blog

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