FYI,



http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/toxic-chem
icals-in-computers.pdf
<http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/toxic-che
micals-in-computers.pdf>





This study was conducted by Greenpeace to gain information

on the presence of certain hazardous substances in a range

of laptop computers, and to investigate testing methodologies

for verifying their presence or absence. Five popular brands of

laptop computer were purchased in Europe by Greenpeace in

March 2006, and the presence of certain hazardous substances

was investigated in a wide variety of internal and external

components. The laptops chosen for this investigation

* Acer Aspire 5670 Series (5672WLMi)

* Apple MacBook Pro

* Dell Latitude D810

* Hewlett Packard (HP) Pavilion dv4000 Series

(dv4357EA)

* Sony VAIO VGN-FJ Series (FJ180)

A range of heavy metals and organic chemicals were investigated

in this study, based partly on those substances controlled under

the recently introduced European RoHS Directive1 which controls

the presence of specific hazardous chemicals in electrical and

electronic equipment sold within the EU, but also including

additional substances; the plastic PVC, and the brominated

flame retardants HBCD and TBBPA. Though including those

chemicals controlled under the RoHS Directive, this study was

not intended to test the products compliance with the Directive.



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They tested for the RoHS metals, Bromine, and PVC



I have not yet read the full report (20 pages with data) but although not
one of their conclusions, it appears only one of the models was found to be
even potentially non-compliant in March.  Lead was reportedly detected in
the solder of the HP model.



Dan Kallin

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